But once you see this for what it is, that changes things doesn't it? It certainly does for your personal life where you are going to feel less inclined to impr

But once you see this for what it is, that changes things doesn't it? It certainly does for your personal life where you are going to feel less inclined to impress people who are impressed in this way. Of course sometimes you want to impress people who don't see this anyway, most obviously the job interview or the business meeting. Well in that case: it's incredibly easy to fake these signals, especially when you see them for what they are. But you still went to tax return/401K, so defining success as owning a lot of the medium of exchange. Not that you have exchanged it for the correct things or gotten them some other way. So you got past viewing nice clothes and cars as and end in themselves but not past viewing money as an end in itself. There is another step you can take, another narrative that has been built to motivate you to act in another group's interest you can abandon.