like in most interesting, difficult things in life, the solution is indirect. That was part of the how to get rich tweet store, which is if you want to get rich, you don't directly just go for the money. I suppose you could like a bankster. But if you're building something of value and you're using leverage and you're taking accountability and you're applying your specific knowledge, you're going to make money as a byproduct. And you're going to create great products, going to productize yourself and create money as a byproduct. The same way, if you want to be happy, you minimize yourself and you engage in high flow activities or engage in activities that take you out of your own self and you end up with happiness. By the way, this is true in seduction as well. You don't seduce a woman

about walking up and saying, I want to sleep with you. That's not how it works. Same with status.

The overt pursuit of status signals low status. It's a low status behavior to chase status

because it reveals you as being lower in the status hierarchy in the first place.

It's not the fact that everything has to be

pursued indirectly. Many things are best pursued directly. If I want to drive a car, I get in, I drive

the car. If I want to write something, then just sit down and write something. But the things that are

either competitive in nature or they seem elusive to us, part of the reason for that is that those of the remaining things that are best pursued

indirectly.