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we can use our reasoning ability to conclude that many of the things that our evolutionary programming encourages us to seek, such as social status and more of anything we already have, may be valuable if our goal is simply to survive and reproduce, but aren't at all valuable if our goal is instead to experience tranquility while we are alive.

Robert had discovered that having an insecure status was the one thing even more distressing than having a low status. So it seemed like there might be something in the theory that depression and anxiety are a response to the constant status anxiety many of us live with today.