Minimum Viable Prestige: the minimum educational, professional, or social 'brand' value needed to satisfy your ego needs, freeing you to focus on self-actualization needs. For some it's 0, for others it's infinite. This idea came to me today while in the epicenter of academia.
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Replying to @anutopiaa
"For some it's 0, for others it's infinite." What do you think determines where someone lands on this spectrum? Does it change throughout life? Also, a great book on this is "The Second Mountain" by David Brooks.
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Replying to @_patriciamou
As others have rightly added, there’s a dependence on both intrinsic (e.g. personality) & extrinsic factors (e.g. family, community). The factors and the balance of them certainly changes throughout life. Offhand, I’d expect extrinsic factors to be strong early and weaker later.
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Replying to @anutopiaa
Makes sense! I'm interested in understanding those who skip status and go straight to self-actualization early on. If we can teach ppl how to "shortcut".. much money/time can be saved and more impactful companies started? Or does self-actualization need status as a prerequisite?
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Replying to @_patriciamou
Yep, self-actualization-first is fascinating and something “starving artists” are thought to espouse. An inverted Maslow’s pyramid has been conceptualized related to this. Yet, as long as “success paths” require prestige, hard to imagine this widely. H/t:
@ULTRAsomethingpic.twitter.com/0X3gYFrWTo
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Patricia Mou Retweeted julianweisser
this is really interesting! thanks for sharing. I think that unbundling of college for "success paths" is slowing picking up. Status/network is being unbundled by places like YC, Pioneer, @beondeck, etc. cchttps://twitter.com/julianweisser/status/1226567991115956224 …
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