The More Successful You Are The Longer You’ll Live: Will Storr

You shouldn't raise your children to believe that they can be Beyonce because the chances are they can't. Willstore is an award-winning author of six critically acclaimed books. His ideas are disruptive, challenging, and life-changing, and some of them Will make you feel incredibly uncomfortable. People don't like to talk about this stuff. 99% of self-help folks never mention genes. They want to promote that idea of like and be whoever I want to be. But a huge amount of who we are is who we were born as. That myth of you have full control over yourself as a human being. That's the problem. It's not about embracing your flaws. It's about accepting your flaws. Our lives are full of status pursuit. The more status that you earn, the better everything else gets. But that was true ten thousand years ago.

It's true today. The brain is highly attuned to where we sit in a pecking order. The lower we are down in that pecking order, the more unhealthy we became. If you take two smokers, the one higher up is less likely to die of a smoking related disease than the one lower down. That's mental. It matters massively. How do we advance in the status game? First game is a

Without further ado. I'm Steven Butler. And this is the die of a CEO. I hope nobody's listening. But if you are

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