People care about status despite their best intentions because our brains are wired this way. But playing status games can be stressful, anxiety-provoking, and joy-stealing. Learn to rewire your brain to replace the trap of social comparison with joy of self-confidence.
People care about status despite their best intentions because our brains are wired this way. But playing status games can be stressful, anxiety-provoking, and joy-stealing. Learn to rewire your brain to replace the trap of social comparison with joy of self-confidence.
Loretta G. Breuning, PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and professor emerita of management at California State University, East Bay. She is the author of many personal development books, including Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin and Endorphin Levels and Tame Your Anxiety: Rewiring Your Brain for Happiness. Dr. Breuning's work has been translated into ten languages and is cited in major media. Before teaching, she worked for the United Nations in Africa. The Inner Mammal Institute offers videos, podcasts, books, blogs, multimedia, a training program, and a free five-day happy-chemical jumpstart. Details are available at InnerMammalInstitute.org. She lives in Oakland, CA.
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Preface: How I Stopped Selling Introduction: Why We Care About Status Part 1: Why Status Games Are Relentless 1. Status Games in Animals 2. Social Rivalry Among Early Humans 3. Status Games Around the World Part 2: How Our Brain Creates Status Games 4. Serotonin and the Pleasure of Social Dominance 5. Cortisol and Status Stress 6. Why It's Always High School in Your Brain Part 3: Healthy Alternatives to Status Games 7. A Healthy Serotonin Mindset 8. Practical Steps Toward Serotonin 9. Help Others Escape Status Games Epilogue Index About the Author
Preface: How I Stopped Selling Introduction: Why We Care About Status Part 1: Why Status Games Are Relentless 1. Status Games in Animals 2. Social Rivalry Among Early Humans 3. Status Games Around the World Part 2: How Our Brain Creates Status Games 4. Serotonin and the Pleasure of Social Dominance 5. Cortisol and Status Stress 6. Why It's Always High School in Your Brain Part 3: Healthy Alternatives to Status Games 7. A Healthy Serotonin Mindset 8. Practical Steps Toward Serotonin 9. Help Others Escape Status Games Epilogue Index About the Author
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Our mammalian brains are hard-wired to seek status, according to Breuning, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute. Animals have pecking orders for obtaining food and seeking reproductive partners. Similarly, we are rewarded with a dose of serotonin when we buy a better car, display stronger ethics, build a better body, or snag a cuter partner. Social media feeds into the competitive quest for status. But Breuning proposes a better way to be rewarded by lifting yourself up without dragging anyone else down. Her unique inquiry in neurological and social aspects of status games includes fascinating looks into the role status-seeking played in the lives of various luminaries, including Charles Darwin, Jane Austen, Booker T. Washington, and Alexander Hamilton. The solution to the conflicts raised by comparison and competition that Breuning offers in this thought-provoking study is to choose a middle path between the fast and slow lanes of life, understand our mammalian urges, and learn techniques for rewiring out brains to build new inner pathways that shift our focus away from the stress of rivalry to the rewards of personal growth.
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