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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 27 Nov 2017
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    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.pic.twitter.com/MXX0F9IhbW

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      1. Graham Rowe‏ @grahamsrowe 27 Nov 2017
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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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      2. Andrew ©‏ @covrter 27 Nov 2017
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        1. Woah. 2. I'd love to follow your highlights on @highlytm (disclosure: it's my project)

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 27 Nov 2017
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        I don't highlight much except for rare sharing

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      1. George Baily‏ @georgebaily 28 Nov 2017
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        so a pretty strong evolutionary/competitive incentive for social bullying and narcissist-dominant behaviour...

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      1. V K M‏ @vamsee_k 28 Nov 2017
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        And the most known one which I think encompasses most of these symptoms- depression

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      1. InnerMindConsulting‏ @InnerMindConsul 28 Nov 2017
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        Need to change the game.

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      1. exiledsurferrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr‏ @exiledsurfer 28 Nov 2017
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        xplains those crypto-ragequits quite well eh?

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      1.  🌴 choom gang  🌴‏ @francisregan 28 Nov 2017
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        There's a lot of good Sapolsky lectures up on Stanford's itunesu

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