How much status is enough for you?

Money, power, sexual attraction, altruism, music, organizing skills…. they are all different routes to attaining the esteem of others. It’s a kind of self-perpetuating system, though. The more you are esteemed, the easier it is to get the things that come with prestige.

How much do you feel like you need in order to consider yourself successful? How much do you want? How much do you think you should want?

It’s hard to quantify these things, so it might be helpful to explain it with examples or images or the kind of status you’d like.