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If You Enjoyed Reading The Status Game, by Will Storr, You Might Love These 4 Books!
Alright, no one ENJOYS reading The Status Game — it’s deeply unsettling — but these books pair nicely with it.
“Status is an essential nutrient found not in meat or fruit or sunlight but in the successful playing of our lives. When we feel chronically deprived of it, or disconnected from the game, our minds and bodies can turn against us. To our brains, status is a resource as real as oxygen or water. When we lose it, we break.”
-Will Storr, The Status Game
Put any group of humans together, and almost instantly they’ll start trying to figure out who should lead, who’s most worthy of respect, and who should be praised and emulated.
Not only that, but we each carry around a sense of where we stand in that hierarchy, and many of us go to rather extreme lengths in order to rise to the top.
According to the award-winning writer and journalist Will Storr (award-winning = high status!), the “status game” that we’re all playing is an invisible thread that runs through the best and the worst of what human beings do all day.
Whether we’re “winning” or “losing” affects our happiness and our self-esteem, our relationships with others, our goals in life and whom we choose to copy, and…
