Damn! Social defeat is like a biochemical bomb going off inside your body. I'd read some of Sapolsky's work on serotonin before but this is way more going on. If you compete you'd better win.
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This is why so few people do new things (founder, artist etc). You have to lose a lot of battles to win the war and it hurts too much.
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so a pretty strong evolutionary/competitive incentive for social bullying and narcissist-dominant behaviour...
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There's a lot of good Sapolsky lectures up on Stanford's itunesu







