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Ordinary folk self sabotage as well, you don't have to be an over achieving ivy league student to be that way. No one likes failure and many people understand t
by weatherlite 3y ago
Ordinary folk self sabotage as well, you don't have to be an over achieving ivy league student to be that way. No one likes failure and many people understand their societal worth is bound to their status/career and not to who they are as a person; hence the status anxiety and the (sometimes) self sabotaging behavior.
- brazzy 3y agoAbsolutely. My cousin did this (not in the USA). He studied political science and spent almost 10 years "working" on his master thesis. It was always "almost done", then he decided that the topic had become obsolete and he had to start over. His problem was that finding a job with a political science degree is hard. He could become unemployed, a failure. But as long as he didn't graduate, he was still a student, and respectable.