Ah yes. So here we might have the connection to the first model I mentioned: status as the amount of resources you can expect to leverage if you need it. This is still different from relative influence in an important way, because it’s about absolute influence, which is positive-sum, and plausibly the actual thing we want.
I have experienced something similar a few years ago in my freshman year of uni. It was a time when I felt very worthy, but then when I had a burnout nonetheless, none of that status amounted to any help. It made me a lot more suspicious and a lot more needy. I haven’t recovered since.
So this whole thing seems to connect to the idea of Hufflepuff virtue, right? I hadn’t realized these people were ahead of me.
Ah yes. So here we might have the connection to the first model I mentioned: status as the amount of resources you can expect to leverage if you need it. This is still different from relative influence in an important way, because it’s about absolute influence, which is positive-sum, and plausibly the actual thing we want.
I have experienced something similar a few years ago in my freshman year of uni. It was a time when I felt very worthy, but then when I had a burnout nonetheless, none of that status amounted to any help. It made me a lot more suspicious and a lot more needy. I haven’t recovered since.
So this whole thing seems to connect to the idea of Hufflepuff virtue, right? I hadn’t realized these people were ahead of me.