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Hot take: we all have a psychological homeostatic set point for status and life accomplishment. If good things happen, self-sabotage will continue until we successfully lower ourselves to our standards. twitter.com/DaltonDEmery/s

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I wonder if this is a (the?) role of social support/community standards/peer groups? The set point for accomplishment is determined by some suitable group of peers and then we do homeostasis around that.

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I definitely find myself most "comfortable" when setting my goals at some suitable percentile for my peer group, even as my peer group has varied a lot. Deviating from that has always been pretty slow and painful.

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