
The Status Game
On Social Position and How We Use It
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‘Will Storr is one of our best journalists of ideas … The Status Game might be his best yet’ James Marriott, Books of the Year, The Times
What drives our political and moral beliefs? What makes us like some things and dislike others? What shapes how we behave, and misbehave, in groups? What makes you, you?
For centuries, philosophers and scholars have described human behaviour in terms of sex, power and money. In The Status Game, bestselling author Will Storr radically turns this thinking on its head by arguing that it is our irrepressible craving for status that ultimately defines who we are.
From the era of the hunter-gatherer to today, when we exist as workers in the globalised economy and citizens of online worlds, the need for status has always been wired into us. A wealth of research shows that how much of it we possess dramatically affects not only our happiness and wellbeing but also our physical health – and without sufficient status, we become more ill, and live shorter lives. It’s an unconscious obsession that drives the best and worst of us: our innovation, arts and civilisation as well as our murders, wars and genocides. But why is status such an all-consuming prize? What happens if it’s taken away from us? And how can our unquenchable thirst for it explain cults, moral panics, conspiracy theories, the rise of social media and the ‘culture wars’ of today?
On a breathtaking journey through time and culture, The Status Game offers a sweeping rethink of human psychology that will change how you see others – and how you see yourself.
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Critic reviews
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‘[The Status Game] challenged the way I think about the role of status in my own life and in some ways it made me feel less terrible about some of my unhealthy fixations. If you find yourself needlessly worried about status, it might do the same for you … I can’t stop thinking about it’ Sean Illing, Vox
‘Eloquent, entertaining’ New Statesman
‘Moving … Scholarly … Storr showcases a rare skill – the ability to use technical academic scholarship in solving a real-world problem’ Helen Dale, CapX
‘I haven’t finished reading The Status Game because I’ve only read it once. There's so much in this dazzling book I will be revisiting over and over again’
Daniel Finkelstein, author of Everything in Moderation
‘The Status Game could not be more timely and provides a missing piece for understanding where we are, and how to get out of this mess … I can’t recommend it highly enough’
Greg Lukianoff, co-author with Jonathan Haidt of The Coddling of the American Mind
‘Thought provoking and enlightening – you’ll be discussing The Status Game everywhere you go’ Sara Pascoe
‘Bursting with insights into the hierarchy-crazed hellscape of a world shaped by social media, this book confirms Will Storr’s own status as a master storyteller’
Helen Lewis, author of Difficult Women
‘A radical new theory of human nature … It should – quite appropriately – establish Will Storr as the finest science writer being published today’
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In Survival of the Prettiest, Nancy Etcoff, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, argues that beauty is neither a cultural construction, an invention of the fashion industry, nor a backlash against feminism - it's in our biology.
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who is this lady?
- By Mark on 01-14-20
By: Nancy Etcoff
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Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire
- The Biggest Ideas in Science from Quanta
- By: Thomas Lin - editor, Sean Carroll - foreword
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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Bringing together the best and most interesting science stories appearing in Quanta Magazine over the past five years, Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire reports on some of the greatest scientific minds as they test the limits of human knowledge. It communicates science by taking it seriously, wrestling with difficult concepts, and clearly explaining them in a way that speaks to our innate curiosity about our world and ourselves.
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Broad collection of specific physics applications
- By James S. on 06-26-19
By: Thomas Lin - editor, and others
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Popular
- The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World
- By: Mitch Prinstein
- Narrated by: Mitch Prinstein
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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No matter how old you are, there's a good chance that the word popular immediately transports you back to your teenage years. Most of us can easily recall the adolescent social cliques, the high school pecking order, and which of our peers stood out as the most or the least popular teens we knew. Even as adults we all still remember exactly where we stood in the high school social hierarchy, and the powerful emotions associated with our status persist decades later. This may be for good reason.
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Genius Book that will Redefine View of Popularity
- By AmazonJoe on 06-06-17
By: Mitch Prinstein
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Happy
- Why More or Less Everything Is Absolutely Fine
- By: Derren Brown
- Narrated by: Derren Brown
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
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In Happy Derren Brown explores changing concepts of happiness - from the surprisingly modern wisdom of the Stoics and Epicureans in classical times right up until today, when the self-help industry has attempted to claim happiness as its own. He shows how many of self-help’s suggested routes to happiness and success – such as positive thinking, self-belief and setting goals – can be disastrous to follow and, indeed, actually cause anxiety. Happy aims to reclaim happiness and to enable us to appreciate the good things in life, in all their transient glory.
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A witty and thoughtful take on stoicism
- By Sam Russell on 04-07-19
By: Derren Brown
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A Curious Mind
- The Secret to a Bigger Life
- By: Brian Grazer, Charles Fishman, Brian Grazer - introduction
- Narrated by: Norbert Leo Butz
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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From Academy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer and acclaimed business journalist Charles Fishman comes a brilliantly entertaining peek into the weekly "curiosity conversations" that have inspired Grazer to create some of America's favorite and iconic movies and television shows - from 24 to A Beautiful Mind.
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Me,Me,and Me
- By Don Rankin on 07-12-15
By: Brian Grazer, and others
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Becoming a Barbarian
- By: Jack Donovan
- Narrated by: Jack Donovan, James Dorton
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
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Good, modern, civilized Western men today are expected to think like "citizens of the world" - obligated to everyone and no one. Natural, meaningful tribal connections have been substituted with synthetic, disposable consumer identities. Without a sense of who they are and what group they have a place in, modern men are becoming increasingly detached, disoriented, vulnerable, and ever more easily manipulated.
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Great Follow Up to Way of Man
- By Jaron on 02-15-18
By: Jack Donovan
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Hardwiring Happiness
- The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
- By: Rick Hanson
- Narrated by: Rick Hanson
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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Why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask in the warmth of being appreciated? Because your brain evolved to learn quickly from bad experiences and slowly from good ones, but you can change this.
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Like a therapy session while I'm on the move.
- By julie on 12-09-13
By: Rick Hanson
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The Expectation Effect
- How Your Mindset Can Change Your World
- By: David Robson
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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Melding neuroscience with narrative, science journalist David Robson takes lstenersi on a deep dive into the many life zones the expectation effect permeates. We see how people who believe stress is beneficial become more creative when placed under strain. We see how associating aging with wisdom can add seven plus years to your life. People say seeing is believing but, over and over, Robson proves that the converse is truer: Believing is seeing.
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Every leader and teacher must read!
- By Myron Golden on 09-18-22
By: David Robson
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Farsighted
- By: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: George Newbern, Steven Johnson - introduction
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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There's no one-size-fits-all model for the important decisions that can alter the course of a life, an organization, or a civilization. But Farsighted explains how we can approach these choices more effectively and how we can appreciate the subtle intelligence of choices that shaped our broader social history.
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Powerful Book for Business and Personal Decisions
- By Robert Z on 09-30-18
By: Steven Johnson
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Everybody Lies
- Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
- By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Steven Pinker - foreword
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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By the end of on average day in the early 21st century, human beings searching the Internet will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data. This staggering amount of information - unprecedented in history - can tell us a great deal about who we are - the fears, desires, and behaviors that drive us, and the conscious and unconscious decisions we make. From the profound to the mundane, we can gain astonishing knowledge about the human psyche that less than 20 years ago seemed unfathomable.
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Leave out the politics please
- By Shane Hampson on 02-20-20
By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, and others
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Your Brain on Love
- The Neurobiology of Healthy Relationships
- By: Stan Tatkin PsyD
- Narrated by: Stan Tatkin PsyD
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
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"Understand your brain, improve your relationships." That's what Stan Tatkin has learned from his leading-edge work as a researcher and couples therapist. In this complete audio learning program, he merges current insights from neurobiology and attachment theory to help us shift out of conflict and into deeper and more loving connections. Listeners first learn to identify attachment styles - the patterns of intimacy that begin in our earliest years - both in ourselves and in those around us.
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Relationship Essential
- By Martin on 08-31-14
By: Stan Tatkin PsyD
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The Evolution of Desire
- By: David M. Buss
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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If we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question we must look into our evolutionary past, argues prominent psychologist David M. Buss. Based one of the largest studies of human mating ever undertaken, encompassing more than 10,000 people of all ages from 37 cultures worldwide, The Evolution of Desire is the first work to present a unified theory of human mating behavior.
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Highly naive look on the nature of women
- By Xavier on 12-10-18
By: David M. Buss
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Existential Physics
- A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
- By: Sabine Hossenfelder
- Narrated by: Gina Daniels
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Not only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. The notion that there are universes within particles, or that particles are conscious, is ascientific, as is the hypothesis that our universe is a computer simulation. On the other hand, the idea that the universe itself is conscious is difficult to rule out entirely.
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Unscientific and unengaging
- By Jase G on 03-29-23
Thoughtful and reflective
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A new way to think about the Game of Life
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Fascinating
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As someone who has been raised in a large Utah based cult, and lost my sister to depression, due to the abusive virtue and dominance games the large Utah based cult played on my sister - this book resonated with me.
I’ve tried to deconstruct what happened, why it happened and how to move forward in the wake of such heartbreak and loss, and I felt like this book gave me a lot of answers I have been seeking.
Since reading I noticed I have shifted into being in an observer in role when it comes to work, politics, religion, social media, and observing the roles people play, the status they are seeking, and why they do the things they do. I’ve even started reading family history going back 5 generations to understand my own family history and the status game they had played to help start this Utah based religion.
It was an incredibly powerful read into understanding myself, my community, events, and lots helpful advice in the last chapter on moving forward.
Great Read - An Astronauts View of Humanity!
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The rise of German and rise of deplorables to take over
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Best book I've listened to this year
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Encouraging and comforting
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Great insights. Very thought provoking.
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Extremely Revealing and Well Researched
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It’s a mirror.
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