What would impress me is someone more interested in personal development than signaling their status with wasteful expenditure and needless material goods. :-)
This also works on a sadly limited number of people.
I’m pretty sure there are expensive types of personal development; even expensive types of personal development that aren’t “wasteful” if you don’t want to count pure signaling as something worth paying for.
So another way of thinking about the problem would be “what high status training could I simply buy?” This has the added bonus of circumventing the money awkwardness at the operational end.
What would impress me is someone more interested in personal development than signaling their status with wasteful expenditure and needless material goods. :-)
This also works on a sadly limited number of people.
I’m pretty sure there are expensive types of personal development; even expensive types of personal development that aren’t “wasteful” if you don’t want to count pure signaling as something worth paying for.
So another way of thinking about the problem would be “what high status training could I simply buy?” This has the added bonus of circumventing the money awkwardness at the operational end.