”You’ll laugh at your fears when you find out who you are.”

A seminal series from a legendary creator. Dragon Ball, a wry update on the Chinese "Monkey King" myth, introduces us to Son Go Son Goku, a young monkey-tailed boy whose quiet life is turned upside-down when he meets Bulma, a girl determined to collect the seven "Dragon Balls." If she gathers them all, an incredibly powerful dragon will appear and grant her one wish. But the precious orbs are scattered all over the world, and to get them she needs the help of a certain super-strong boy. The VIZBIG edition of Dragon Ball contains volumes 1-3, bonus color content and updated text. Before there was Dragon Ball Z, there was Akira Toriyama's action epic Dragon Ball, starring the younger version of Son Goku and all the other Dragon Ball Z heroes! Meet a naive young monkey-tailed boy named Goku, whose quiet life changes when he meets Bulma, a girl who is on a quest to collect seven "Dragon Balls." If she gathers them all, an incredibly powerful dragon will appear and grant her one wish. But the precious orbs are scattered all over the world, and Bulma needs Goku's help (and his super-strength)! With a magic staff for a weapon and a flying cloud for a ride, Goku sets out on the adventure of a lifetime...

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Change your perspective: get BIG A seminal series from a legendary creator. Dragon Ball, a wry update on the Chinese "Monkey King" myth, introduces us to Son Goku, a young monkey-tailed boy whose quiet life is turned upside-down when he meets Bulma, a girl determined to collect the seven "Dragon Balls." If she gathers them all, an incredibly powerful dragon will appear and grant her one wish. But the precious orbs are scattered all over the world, and to get them she needs the help of a certain super-strong boy... A Collection of Volumes 1 - 3! Legend has it that if all seven of the precious orbs called "Dragon Balls" are gathered together, an incredibly powerful dragon god will appear to grant one wish. Unfortunately, the orbs are scattered across the world, making them extremely difficult to collect. Enter 16-year-old Bulma, a scientific genius who has constructed a radar to detect the exact locations of the Dragon Balls. She's on a mission to find all seven orbs, but first she must convince young Son Goku to join her on her quest. With a monkey tail, super-human strength, and a magic staff for a weapon, Son Goku's ready to set out on the adventure of a lifetime...

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The whole saga of stupendous journey's of Lord Ram is said to be as Ramayana. He was born to the King Dasharatha of Ayodhya and Kautilya. Brought up as a divine, stunning & charming soul was also possed by great fighting abilities taught by his Guru Vishwamitra

Backstory Of The Great Beloved King 

Kaikeyi the mother of second son of King Dashratha named Bharata, was once mind-stabbed by her evil maid Manthara when the Lord Ram was declared as the next king by his father. She urged Kaikeyi to use her boon gifted by King Dashratha.Kaikeyi rooked by her maid asked the King for the boon. The king trapped by his words accepted the boon to sent Lord Ram for 14 yrs of exile and made Bharata as the next king of Ayodhya.

Cost Of 14 Yrs Exile

Lord Ram along with his wife Sita and brother Laxman went to gaze the forest life. They moved to Panchavati as suggested by Muni Agasthya.Supranakha the sister of Ravana, once went to confirm whatever she had heard about the pure look of Lord Ram. When came near, stunned by the divine soul sought to devour Sita and marry Lord Ram, Laxman abruptly cut her nose shoved her off.

Spark By Supranakha 

Raged by the state of Supranakha, Ravana decided to abduct Sita and marry her as heard about her alluring and pleasing look. Ravana along with his uncle maaricha went to carry on his sinful deed. Maaricha manifested itself into a golden Deer to locomote Lord Ram away from his residence. Then the demon called out for help in voice of Lord Ram, tricking Laxman for looking out for Lord Ram. Then Ravana disguised himself as a sage to ask for some food to Sita. Unable to cross the Laxman-Rekha made by Laxman, sage asked the Sita to cross it, Sita for her kindness did it and got captured by Ravana.

Abduction by Ravans

Lord Ram and Laxman on the way found out a injured vulture named Jatayu, holding on to his last breath was slashed by Ravana while saving Sita.They defeated demon mountain Kabandha and freed him from the curse, who told them to find Sugreev in Rishyamukh Mountain.King Sugreev was outthrown by his brother Vali from his kingdom and captured his wife.

Tale For Finding The Beloved SITA

Sugreev made a deal with Lord Ram and recaptured the King Vali. Sugreev as promised send his army across all 4 directions to find the throne of Ravana.They then met Sampaati who told about Ravana's origin. Jaldevi then pleased Lord Ram to write his name on the rocks, they would float. They made a bridge named Ram Setu out of stones.

Hands Of Help

Lord Rama asked the King of Lanka to still accept his defeat and return Sita safely to him. Ravana rejected the statement and a fiercerful battle rose on the terrains of Lanka, but Ravana was finally defeated as advised by his brother Vibhishana.

Downstriking the Throne Of Ravana 

This is the most criticized and grieved part of Ramayana, when Lord Ram met Sita she was asked for a Agnipariksha, which is done in order to test the character of a women with their adulterous wisdom. As Sita heard Lord Ram about his intention she went in deep sorrow and misery and pleased not to hurt her of this dreadful act.Lord Ram explained that the test for chastity is necessary as he himself would trust her but the rest of the world won't.

Grieve For Chastity

"You could grieve for your circumstances or could simply give the test and prove your potential"

"You could either grieve on circumstances or simply go through the tests and prove your potential"

Ram Avatar - Seventh Avatar Of Vishnu Lord Rama is one of the most adored gods in India. He is depicted holding a bow and arrow indicating his readiness to destroy evils. His story forms the epic Ramayana. Lord Rama can be simply described as a man who displays perfect moral as well as social behaviour. Lord Rama, in the words of Swami Vivekananda, is “the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband and above all, the ideal king”. He is a symbol of the victory of right over the evil. He is perfect in every aspect and is often referred as Maryada Purushottam meaning “the one who is the supreme man”. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Please Like, Share and Subscribe our videos.*** Press the bell button to stay notified about our new videos! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: 1. Some parts from this video like music, pictures and videos are sourced from the web. The Hindu Saga does not declare any ownership and is ready to give the rights to whoever it is due. 2. Multiple sources have been referred to create the content and story for the videos and we try our best to produce good content that seems authentic to our knowledge, however, we do not confirm the authenticity of the content and stories shared on channel. 3. Some of the links are affiliate links, which means if you use that link to buy something, I get a small kickback at no extra cost to you. :) #TheHinduSaga #IndianHistory #HinduHistory #Hinduism #IndianMythology #HinduMythology #HinduGods #ReligionExplained

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I guess a subtle one is them treating you differently in public vs how they treat you privately. These can both go either way.

Always talking shit about other people when they aren’t around.

When telling you about issues in their life and everything is everyone else’s fault/ no accountability

How someone treats another person based on their job title. Anyone who treats a server, maid, garbage person, etc like crap is just telling the world how much a piece they are.

When you express a boundary, they try to guilt trip you, pressure you, or threaten you to try and force you to do things you don’t want to do.

Treating people well only if they can benefit from them in some way. If they treat you well, but treat random people like shit, they aren't good people. And they'll treat you like shit too if you ever stop being of use to them.

If they brag about how they pulled a fast one on other people. As if to say how smart/slick they are and everyone else is stupid.

They never apologize.

It's always about them. They're always the hero or always the victim in their stories.Can't take criticism but probably dish it out to everyone else. They're never wrong.

They remember you are their friend only when they need something from you.

Nothing is ever their fault.

They constantly say or do things where their only justification for doing so is "It was just a joke" when called out on it.

When they cannot bring themselves to celebrate someone else’s success.

A lot of times they’ll straight up tell you. Anybody who gleefully tells you “I’m such an asshole” or “I’m such a bi*ch” is usually not joking, even if they say it while laughing.

Throwing trash out of a car window, littering

Treats animals poorly

So this should be obvious but it's not. As a guy, don't trust another guy if he cheats on his spouse. If he'll betray the closest person to him, he doesn't care about his friends either, trust me

Seem easy to spot "bad" people right? Not always I guess. Reddit is really a treasure if you know what to look after. Thousand of folks gave their thoughts, and voted on other's. Ideas kind of make sense, by sheer statistical number, from people's perspective.

r/AskReddit is the place to ask and answer thought-provoking questions.

What's a giveaway that someone isn't a good person?

David McRaney is a science journalist, author, and host of the You Are Not So Smart podcast. He shares 5 key insights from his new book, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion.

How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion

Persuasion is not coercion. It is also not an attempt to defeat your intellectual opponent with facts or moral superiority, nor is it a debate with a winner or a loser. Persuasion is leading a person along in stages, helping them to better understand their own thinking and how it could align with the message at hand. You can’t persuade another person to change their mind if that person doesn’t want to do so, and the techniques that work the best focus on a person’s motivations more than their conclusions. In many ways, persuasion is mostly encouraging people to realize that change is possible.

1. Persuasion is not coercion.

Ultimately, all persuasion is self-persuasion. People change (or refuse to do so) based on their desires, motivations, and internal counterarguing. By focusing on these factors, an argument becomes more likely to change minds.

Beliefs aren’t ideas stored in your brain, possessions on a shelf, or files in a biological computer. Belief is a process. To believe or doubt is the result of neurons in associative networks delivering an emergent sensation of certainty, or lack thereof. The speed of change is inversely proportional to the strength of our certainty, and certainty is a feeling: somewhere between an emotion and a mood, more akin to hunger than to logic. Persuasion, no matter the source, is a force that affects that feeling.“Ultimately, all persuasion is self-persuasion.”

2. Certainty is an emotion.

Brains resist change to some degree because updating when you shouldn’t is dangerous (you might become wrong). But since not updating when you should is also dangerous (you might stay wrong), the brain walks a tightrope, changing its mind carefully given a variety of motivations and goals.

3. Social death is greater than physical death.

The strongest motivation to resist change is the fear of shame and ostracism. As social primates, humans value being good members of their groups much more than they value being right—factually, morally, or otherwise—so much so that as long as we have a group that satisfies our needs, we will choose to be wrong if it keeps us in good standing with our peers.For the ideas that identify us as members of a group, we want to seem trustworthy, and reputation management as a trustworthy individual often supersedes most other concerns, including our mortality.

“The brain walks a tightrope, changing its mind carefully given a variety of motivations and goals.”

Disambiguation is what brains do when confronted with novelty and uncertainty. We use what we think we know to disambiguate the ambiguous. I love that term, especially because it comes from reading comprehension: the act of deriving meaning through context when a word, phrase, or entire essay could be interpreted in many ways.

4. Disambiguation leads to naïve realism.

There’s a term in psychology that pairs well with disambiguation “naïve realism.” This is the certainty one feels when blind to the fact that you are disambiguating, meaning your interpretation doesn’t feel like an interpretation. Since subjectivity often feels like objectivity, naïve realism makes it seem as though the best way to change people’s minds is to show them the facts that support your view, because anyone else who has read the things you have read or seen the things you have seen will naturally see things your way, given that they’ve pondered the matter as thoughtfully as you have.

Therefore, you assume that anyone who disagrees with your conclusions probably just doesn’t have all the facts. If they did, they’d already be seeing the world as you do.This is why you continue to ineffectually copy and paste links from all of your most trusted sources when arguing points with those who seem misguided, crazy, uninformed, or plain wrong. The problem is that this is exactly the same approach that the other side thinks will work on you.

“Since subjectivity often feels like objectivity, naïve realism makes it seem as though the best way to change people’s minds is to show them the facts that support your view.”

Imagine attempting to reach the Moon with a ladder and, upon failing, giving up in frustration because now you believe the Moon is unreachable. When we use the wrong tools and approaches, the people on the other side of the issues we care about can seem impossible to reach. That’s why I used to avoid arguing about politics, superstitions, or conspiracy theories, but I changed my mind about how minds change (and how to change them) after meeting the experts and activists who not only showed me a better way, but also explained the science behind why it works.

5. No one is unreachable.

Even among the people who seem furthest away from what you consider the ground truth, change is a moonshot away once you understand the nature of resistance and the proper techniques to avoid it. The ability to change our minds, update our assumptions, and entertain other points of view is one of our greatest strengths. It is an evolved ability that comes free with every copy of the human brain. To leverage that strength, we must avoid debate and start by having conversations.

Debates have winners and losers, and no one wants to be a loser. But if both sides feel safe to explore their reasoning, to think about their own thinking, to explore their motivations, then we can each avoid the dead-end goal of winning an argument. Instead, we can pursue the shared goal of learning the truth.

“We must avoid debate and start having conversations. Debates have winners and losers, and no one wants to be a loser. But if both sides feel safe to explore their reasoning, to think about their own thinking, to explore their motivations, we can avoid the dead-end goal of winning the argument.”-David McRaney

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“Faith must be based upon certainty. There must be definite knowledge of God’s purpose and will. Without that there can be no true faith.” - Alexander R. Hay (pg. 4) “Every Christian has been positioned forever in the risen Lord by spiritual birth. But only the believer who knows, grows. It is faith in the facts of our position that gives us the daily benefits of growth in our condition.” (pg. 78)

Faith

“Our hope for victory over sin is not, ‘Christ plus my efforts,’ but, ‘Christ plus my receiving.’ To receive victory from Him is to believe His Word that solely by His grace He is, this moment, freeing us from the dominion of sin. And to believe on Him in this way is to recognize that He is doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves.” - Charles Trumbullpg. 21

Preparation 

Our reckoning on the finished work of our death to sin, in Christ at Calvary, Is God's one way of deliverance - there is no other way because that is the way He did it. We learned not to add a finished work in the matter of Justification, and now we must learn not to add to the finished work of emancipation. We will be freed when we enter His prepared freedom - there is no other.

For most of us, It is time to stop asking God for help. He didn't help us to be saved, and He doesn't intend to help us live the Christian life.Immaturity considers the Lord Jesus a Helper.Maturity knows Him to be Life itself.God is not trusted, not honored, in our continually asking Him for help. In the face of "my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus" (Phil. 4:19), how can we beg for help? Our responsibility is to see in the Word all that is ours in Christ, and then thank and trust Him for that which we need.pg. 65

Help

It is true that the downward path (the negative side) has been the consequence both of the workings of self and the tactics of the enemy. Nevertheless, it is also true that the Father has seen to it that it happened, in order that the hunger caused through failure might be satisfied in the Lord Jesus Christ. He knows what needs we need to keep us needy! pg. 251

Failure Recognized

Our Father takes us down until the self-life is uncovered and then up as the truth of the Christ-life discovered. This spiritual principle cannot be circumvented. "Beloved, do not be surprised at the firery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you." - 1 Peter 4:12pg. 255

All through the years of defeat, we have been slowly learning that the harder we tried to live the Christian life the deeper we came under the dominion of the law of sin. We tried to "be” we tried to "do,” and there was nothing but failure year in and year out.As long as we depended on our own resources, all we produced was sin. But in the midst of our wretched attempts to be delivered from the "body of this death” (Romans 7:24), our faithful Father was teaching us what we had to know for our freedom in Christ: self is our greatest enemy, Christ is our only hope (Philippians 1:21).(pg. 208)

Defeat And Victory! 

When we reckon ourselves alive to God in our risen Lord, we are thereby taking our position as seated with Him in the heavenlies. We know that the anchor and source of our life is safely and eternally hid with Christ in God. We are assured that nothing, and no one, can touch us apart from His blessed will. Our attitude is that of looking down on all that He takes us through-we are not under His circumstances, but above them all in our victorious Lord. Standing in our position, we learn in whatever state we are in,"to be content"; we learn how to be abased, and we learn how to abound.

LIVE POSITIONALLY"CRUCIFIED, RISEN, SEATED"(Galatians 2:20; Ephesians 2:6)LIVE POSITIVELY"FULLY PERSUADED"(Romans 14:5)LIVE POSSESSIVELY"ALL THINGS ARE YOURS"(1 Corinthians 3:21)LIVE TRIUMPHANTLY"MORE THAN CONQUERORS"(Romans 8:37)

Five volumes on sanctification published under one cover, presenting biblical foundations and keys to spiritual growth in Christ. It includes "Abide Above", "The Green Letters", "The Ground of Growth", "The Principle of Position", and "The Reckoning That Counts".

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"Not I, but Christ." That brief phrase reflects our complete dependency on Jesus for everything that the Christian life is about, from right standing with God, to spiritual growth, to personal well being, to practical service. In four words, it captures the essence and sweep of The Complete Green Letters.The language of The Complete Green Letters may have a classic flavor, but the remarkable insight and spiritual penetration are thoroughly and refreshingly contemporary. Drawing from the spiritual heritage of the Keswick Convention, these beloved writings by Miles J. Stanford comment powerfully on the true nature of spirituality. Here in one volume, in logical order, are: <ul><li>The Green Letters: Principles of Spiritual Growth</li><li>The Principle of Position: Foundations of Spiritual Growth</li><li>The Ground of Growth: The Christian's Relationship to the Cross and the Risen Christ</li><li>The Reckoning That Counts: The Realization of Spiritual Growth</li><li>Abide Above: A Guide to Spiritual Growth</li></ul>A sound apprehension of the deeper life can make the difference between progress or frustration, peace or turmoil. If you desire a better understanding of what it means to serve Christ, his church, and the world around you, The Complete Green Letters shines light on the path of spiritual growth.

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First Principles delves into the history of American evolution and highlights how the parents of modern thinking were inspired by Roman and Greek philosophy in their mindset, military actions, views of the world, and many more.The influence of Greek and Roman political thought on America is a subject that historians debated for centuries. Some argue that it was minimal at best, while others claim it was pervasive throughout our nation’s early years.

First Principles - Book Summary

Regardless of the extent to which these ideas influenced our founders, First Principles prove that they had an undeniable impact on the formation of our republic.It is no secret that ancient civilizations deeply influenced America’s founding fathers when creating their own country’s system of government. It was not only because they believed in strong republican values; these two cultures also provided a model for how such a system could work in practice.

<ul><li>Washington’s education was deeply rooted in Roman ideologies. </li><li>Greek philosophers also influenced American thinkers. </li><li>Classicism and the idea of virtue slowly died as Americans sought freedom for all.</li></ul>Now, let’s explore these lessons in depth and learn more about American culture and history.

To learn more about these systems, we’ll look at three of the most relevant lessons from this book:

It is often the Greek philosophy and the Greek thinkers that occupy the first spots in any history debate or at an elite table. Greek ideologies shaped the world as we know it, paved the way for democracy, and shaped ideologies forever. However, Roman philosophers and their culture also had plenty to do with how America grew to be today. Rome and its emperors shaped leading figures like Washington and many revolutionary Americans. They considered Cicero a great orator and an idol to learn from.

Lesson 1: One of America’s leading figures was highly inspired by Roman emperors.

Revolutionary Americans considered that Rome had achieved the greatest level a state can hope for. Washington, a military genius, identified with Cato, a figure known for their virtue and for not giving in to the aristocracy, but rather fighting against corruption.Washington strived to become such a figure and take America to the highest forms of a republic. To defeat the British, he imprisoned some of the great Roman generals, Fabius and Cincinnatus. He studied their strategies and tried to implement them, almost by impersonating them.

The founders believed that the democratic form of government found in ancient Greece and Rome was an ideal model for America, which had just broken free from Great Britain. They also wanted to ensure that the United States would be able to withstand any future threats from European powers. In order for this to happen, America needed both a strong military and a well-educated citizenry who were capable of deciding matters of the state through reasoned deliberation rather than violence or coercion.

Lesson 2: The founding fathers of America found inspiration in Roman and Greek ways of thinking.

Jefferson, Washington, J. Adams and many others looked for inspiration in these ancient European states. Jefferson, in particular, was a fan of Epicurus, Euripides, and many other Greek philosophers that shaped his way of thinking.In fact, Epicurus had a vision of life that Jefferson shared profoundly. We can notice that in the Declaration of Independence, he states that all humans are created equal and they have the right to pursue happiness. These concepts are central to the Epicurean philosophy.

The early nineteenth century marked a time of great change in American culture. The Enlightenment gave way to Romanticism, and classicism was replaced by a rather rational way of viewing things. This shift in cultural focus was reflected in the principles that guided the people and their rulers. While Jefferson’s presidency and Madison’s afterward were marked by a return to classicism, it soon became an object of ridicule.

Lesson 3: The leading figures of America saw radical changes from one mandate to the other.

The masses were seeking more rational views of the world and free land. People also began to view slavery as a ridiculous concept compared to the American principle of freedom for all.As reason and rationality gave way to emotion in the nineteenth century, classicism slowly died out of fashion. Virtue was no longer a guiding light for every endeavor, while free labor and a fairer world were the true aspirations now.

In First Principles, Thomas Ricks explains how Greek and Roman philosophers altogether shaped America as we know it today. In ancient philosophy, it was only through hard work and constant vigilance that man could be made virtuous enough to live freely and happily. This notion is closely linked with different waves of culture that America had experienced through its shaping process.

First Principles – Book Review

The book manages to examine how America’s Founding Fathers used classical philosophy in their own political theory. The essays address topics such as Jefferson’s views on slavery, Washington’s influence on economic policy, and Adams’ role in shaping foreign policy.

The 30-year-old historian who enjoys a good read, the 50-year-old republican who wants to extend their knowledge in the field of American history, or the 45-year-old person who wants to find out more about the lives and views of the Founding Fathers of America.

Who would I recommend the First Principles to?

“Public Virtue cannot exist in a Nation without private, and public Virtue is the only Founsation of Republics. There must be apositive Passion for the public good, the public Interest, Honour, Power, and Glory, established in the Minds of the People, or there can be no Republican Government, nor any real Liberty.”-Thomas E. Ricks

First Principles summary delves into the history of American evolution and how Roman and Greek philosophy inspired its first leaders.

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Everything we do in life can be explained as a struggle to win more clout in a community we care about. Generally status can be gained in 3 ways:
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<li>Dominance: Impose your will through force. This applies to dictators as much as verbally abusive partners.</li>
<li>Virtue: Win points by being better. Think Michelle Obama or Mahatma Gandhi.</li>
<li>Competence: Be the winner. In business like Donald Trump. Or in beauty like the Instagram models.</li>
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Status can be tied to narcissism and other negative traits, but it's the driver behind all our actions, including the positive. We could have never invented anything without it.

Life Is A Status Game

When we consider conscience, the ultimate judge in our head, can also be considered a form of a status game. Conscience is just an imagined, a simulated game. We subconsciously imagine what others would think about our actions.That's why we are proud about ourselves when we do something good even when we are alone. Or we feel shame when we don't raise to the standards of our imaginary audience.

Conscience Is A Status Game

The more status games one plays the more happy (s)he will be. This means being part of more groups you care about: your professional circle, family, extended family, interest groups, friends etc. The larger the number of groups, the more opportunity for scoring status points.

Happiness Depends On How Many Status Games Are On

Interesting perspective about a key driver in our lives. 

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Science of Storytelling comes a bold and ambitious investigation of status that will redefine human culture for our times There's something humans desire even more than gold. It's a fundamental drive that's common to all humanity, cutting across race, gender, age and culture. Our need for it is such that exactly how much of it we possess dramatically effects not only our happiness and well-being but also our physical health. It'sstatus, argues Will Storr. You can't understand human behaviour without understanding The Status Game. This game, which we are all playing, is not only the secret of our success, but also of our most evil behaviour. Everything is subordinate to status, and humans aren't unique in our complicity with it. By reflecting on the various ways humans negotiate this game - through status hierarchies, values, myths and sacred markers, Storr gives readers a master class in this most malevolent of social mysteries.

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'Will Storr is one of our best journalists of ideas ... The Status Game might be his best yet' James Marriott, Books of the Year, The Times What drives our political and moral beliefs? What makes us like some things and dislike others? What shapes how we behave, and misbehave, in groups? What makes you, you? For centuries, philosophers and scholars have described human behaviour in terms of sex, power and money. In The Status Game, bestselling author Will Storr radically turns this thinking on its head by arguing that it is our irrepressible craving for status that ultimately defines who we are. From the era of the hunter-gatherer to today, when we exist as workers in the globalised economy and citizens of online worlds, the need for status has always been wired into us. A wealth of research shows that how much of it we possess dramatically affects not only our happiness and wellbeing but also our physical health - and without sufficient status, we become more ill, and live shorter lives. It's an unconscious obsession that drives the best and worst of us: our innovation, arts and civilisation as well as our murders, wars and genocides. But why is status such an all-consuming prize? What happens if it's taken away from us? And how can our unquenchable thirst for it explain cults, moral panics, conspiracy theories, the rise of social media and the 'culture wars' of today? On a breathtaking journey through time and culture, The Status Game offers a sweeping rethink of human psychology that will change how you see others - and how you see yourself.

Will Storr

The Status Game

The Worldly Philosophers is your hands-on guide to economics, how the world works overall but especially from a financial point of view, what are the social and economic systems that existed throughout history, and how certain people’s concepts got to shape the world we know today.The Worldly Philosophers is a comprehensive and engaging book that provides readers with a thorough understanding of the development of modern economic philosophy. The book received favorable reviews from the New York Times. And it has received praise from various other publications as well.

The Worldly Philosophers – Book Summary

In a nutshell, it presents the world order from an economical point of view. Everything regarding macroeconomics these days is mathematical, social, political, and overall influenced by various events dating from centuries ago, all the way to our days.The book follows these events and presents the natural evolution of humanity in relation to economics. It also highlights the major political and social winds and concepts that helped shape our world. And traces the roots of today’s socio-economical conditions.

<ul><li>All economists sought to understand one common concept: how society works.</li><li>A market ruled by tradition, coercion, and rules of the past is deemed to crash.</li><li>Adam Smith is considered the father of modern economics due to his invaluable theory presented in 1776.</li></ul>Economics is not complicated. But it’s fun and relevant. Don’t believe me? Let’s explore these three lessons in detail and you’ll see for yourself!

Here are three of the best lessons from the book:

Regardless of the theories they produced, every economist wanted to find out how to organize a society in the best way, economically and socially speaking. The economists’ quest for this holy grail underlies their seemingly disparate approaches and theories. Yet their shared desire has led them to develop numerous similar ideas.We can broadly divide economic theory into two categories: microeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomics focuses on individual markets and how changes in prices, supply and demand affect them.

Lesson 1: Regardless of their theories, every economist wanted to find out the single best way to organize a society.

Macroeconomics focuses on aggregating these individual markets into a single economy that we can measure in terms of total output, total employment, price levels, etc.The economists who have had the greatest impact on our lives tried their best to measure these two economic concepts and find a way to integrate them into a successful formula for our society.

The book looks at the ideas of Karl Marx, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, David Ricardo, Thorstein Veblen, Jevons, Malthus, Marshall and John Maynard Keynes. And reaches the idea that all economists sought to understand the same main idea: how humans behave in a society.

History proves once again to be the teller of our present and future. And the best metric to analyze our actions and their consequences today. Actions of the past show how rulers who enforce their visions upon citizens and interfere with the economy and deemed to fall.The 5-year economic plans in the Soviet Union, the forced labor in Egypt, or the enforced traditions and customs in China or India over the economic systems show that states are better left outside the economic machine. People should have freedom of choice in their economic endeavors.

Lesson 2: Efficient markets are driven by profits, freedom of choice and effective institutions.

When states interfere, it should be only to create a legal and efficient environment for these markets to coexist in peace. No forced traditions, labor, or plans will do well in the long run, because people do not work efficiently under such rules.To build efficient markets, states should build the right legal structures and interfere as rarely as possible. Because markets are efficient and regulate themselves. Adam Smith highly popularized this theory. However, it looks true when you look at the highly efficient markets today compared to the ones from the past century.

Many consider Adam Smith as the father of modern economics. That’s because he popularized a highly relevant piece of writing in 1776 titled “The Wealth of Nations”. This paper created a theory that provides a simple answer for how markets are highly efficient. And they regulate themselves through supply and demand.The theory advocates for the Invisible Hand Mechanism, a concept that popularized the idea of a market determined by supply and demand in which states must not interfere. But only regulate what needs to be regulated, legally speaking.

Lesson 3: Adam Smith popularized a famous theory that is as relevant today as it was in 1776.

This market’s equilibrium point is reached at the intersection between the two forces. People set prices themselves, and due to competition, they will lower as much as they need to, or grow accordingly.This theory also states that societies will grow at their own pace. And that they develop in time due to these natural laws of economics. He also popularized the Law of Population. The law states that people will have children at different times. But mostly only during good economic conditions.

The Worldly Philosophers covers the lives and works of many of the most influential economists in history, providing detailed biographical information about each one and explaining what their contributions were. It also provides an overview of how economic thought has developed over time and how it has affected our world. This book would be excellent for anyone who wants to learn more about how modern economics has evolved over time.

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The 30-year-old person who is passionate about economics and the biographies of major influential figures in the economy, the 22-year-old student who wants to study outside their curricula, or the 34-year-old stock market investor who wants to gain a deeper understanding of the field by studying macroeconomics from its fundamentals.

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“As long as custom and command ruled the world, the problem of riches and poverty hardly struck the earlier philosophers at all, other than to be accepted with a sign or railed at as another sign of man’s inner worthlessness”-Robert L. Heilbroner

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Stoic passions are various forms of emotional suffering in Stoicism. A passion is a disturbing and misleading force in the mind which occurs because of a failure to reason correctly. For Chrysippus, a famous Stoic philosopher, the passions are evaluative judgements. A person experiencing such an emotion has incorrectly valued an indifferent thing. A fault of judgement, some false notion of good or evil, lies at the root of each passion.

These states of feeling are disturbances of mental health which upset the natural balance of the soul. They are harmful because they conflict with right reason. The ideal Stoic would instead measure things at their real value, and see that the passions are not natural. To be free of the passions is to have a happiness which is self-contained. There would be nothing to fear - for unreason is the only evil; no cause for anger - for others cannot harm you.

The Stoics beginning with Zeno (the founder of the Stoic philosophy) arranged the passions under four headings:<ul><li>Distress - an irrational contraction, or a fresh opinion that something bad is present, at which people think it right to be depressed</li><li>Fear - an irrational aversion, or avoidance of an expected danger</li><li>Lust - an irrational desire, or pursuit of an expected good but in reality bad</li><li>Delight - an irrational swelling, or a fresh opinion that something good is present, at which people think it right to be elated</li></ul>

Two of these passions (distress and delight) refer to emotions currently present, and two of these (fear and lust) refer to emotions directed at the future. Thus there are just two states directed at the prospect of good and evil, but subdivided as to whether they are present or future.

Numerous subdivisions of the same class are brought under the head of the separate passions.<ul><li>Distress - envy, rivalry, jealousy, anxiety, depression</li><li>Fear - sluggishness, shame, fright</li><li>Lust - anger, rage, hatred</li><li>Delight - malice, rapture, ostentation</li></ul>

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The wise person is someone who is free from passions. Instead, the sage experiences good-feelings which are clear-headed. These emotional impulses are the correct rational emotions. The Stoics listed the good-feelings under the headings of joy, wish, and caution. Thus if something is present which is a genuine good, then the wise person experiences an uplift in the soul - joy. The Stoics also subdivided the good-feelings.<ul><li>Joy - enjoyment, cheerfulness, good spirits</li><li>Wish - good intent, goodwill, welcoming, love</li><li>Caution - moral shame, reverence</li></ul>

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[W]hen an observer doesn’t immediately turn what his senses convey to him into language, into the vocabulary and syntactical framework we all employ when trying to define our experiences, there’s a much greater opportunity for minor details, which might at first seem unimportant, to remain alive in the foreground of an impression, where, later, they might deepen the meaning of an experience.

The lesson to be learned here is not just […] to pay closer attention to what [is] going on around [us], if [we hope] to have a deeper understanding of the event, but to remain in a state of suspended mental analysis while observing all that is happening – resisting the urge to define or summarize. To step away from the familiar compulsion to understand.

If the first lesson in learning how to see more deeply into a landscape [is] to be continuously attentive, and to stifle the urge to stand outside the event, to instead stay within the event, leaving its significance to be resolved later; the second lesson [is] to notice how often [we ask our] body to defer to the dictates of [our] mind, how [our] body’s extraordinary ability to discern textures and perfumes, to discriminate among tones and colors in the world outside itself, [is] dismissed by the rational mind.

The ear hears the song of a vesper sparrow, and then hears the song again, and knows that the second time it is a different vesper sparrow singing. The mind, pleased with itself for identifying those notes as the song if a vesper sparrow, is too preoccupied with its summary to notice what the ear is still offering. The mind is making no use of the body’s ability to be discerning about sounds. And so the mind’s knowledge of the place remains superficial.

Many people have written about how, generally speaking, indigenous people seem to pick up more information traversing a landscape than an outsider, someone from a culture that no longer highly values physical intimacy with a place, that regards this sort of sensitivity as a ‘primitive’ attribute, something a visitor from an ‘advanced’ culture would be comfortable believing he had actually outgrown.

Existential loneliness and a sense that one’s life is inconsequential, both of which are hallmarks of modern civilizations, seem to me to derive in part from our abandoning a belief in the therapeutic dimensions of a relationship with place. A continually refreshed sense of the unplumbable complexity of patterns in the natural world, patterns that are ever present and discernible, and which incorporate the observer, undermine the feeling that one is alone in the world, or meaningless in it.

The effort to know a place deeply is, ultimately, an expression of the human desire to belong, to fit somewhere […] And every natural place, to my mind, is open to being known. And somewhere in this process a person begins to sense that they themselves are becoming known, so that when they are absent from that place they know that place misses them. And this reciprocity, to know and be known, reinforces a sense that one is necessary in the world.

Perhaps the first rule of everything we endeavor to do is to pay attention. Perhaps the second is to be patient. And perhaps a third is to be attentive to what the body knows.

“Place and a mind may interpenetrate till the nature of both is altered.” - Nan Shepherd

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