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Precisely. I don't want to avoid the bad awful sinful behavior of status-seeking. I want to keep my brain in a productive, creative, open state that I suspect is associated with status-seeking, not a closed conventional conservative state that I suspect is associated with status-having.
I suspect that if you stay in the "status-seeking" state long enough without making apparent progress in actually obtaining status, you'll probably get bored with what you're doing and stop being productive anyway. The trick might be to feed your brain enough status signals to keep it going on your project, without giving it so much that it decides it has enough.