Loretta Breuning Status Games: Loretta Breuning, PhD, is Founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of many personal development books, including Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin and Endorphin Levels. She's Professor Emerita of Management at California State University, East Bay, and a grandma.

Loretta Breuning Status Games

Jane Austin, Charles Darwin, Booker T. Washington and other true stories included in the book to inform us these famous people were normal humans who dealt with their own status games--dishing a little dirt tooWhy Loretta stopped selling herself as a "brand" and whey Jeff did the same at Podcast Movement in 2014; constantly pitching to people is exhausting and just not funThat one time Jeff and Loretta went to the LA zoo in the rain; the zoo keeper gave all of the Bananas to the Alpha; Loretta says many zoo keepers will feed the other chimps away from the Alpha as wellJeff visited wild monkeys in Japan where the humans were in a cage and the monkeys were be fed the visitors; it was total chaos with much monkey violenceLearning how to beware of when you are going to start feeling a dip in your happy chemicals and learning to seek healthy ways to deal with that feeling; you don't need to be happy all the time; there is a middle pathThe Common paths to feel the status one up feeling described in the book; my abs are better than your abs, my car is better than your car; I have a bigger portfolio than youExercise can be a great way to relief stress but it can also become an addiction; too much exercise can cause undue wear and tear on joints, bones, and muscles

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