Status Anxiety (NON-FICTION)
The psychological roots of status anxiety and how a good childhood enables the acceptance of an ordinary adult life.
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and if you think about the impulse to be rich and famous and esteemed it's really a desire that gets soaked up by religions religions are saying everybody you know in in christianity every hair on your head is numbered in other words someone's really looking at you someone knows you in the way that a parent a good parent knows a child you know the
... See more“If our need for status is a fixed thing, we nevertheless retain all say over where we will fulfil that need. We are at liberty to ensure that our worries about being disgraced will arise principally in relation to an audience whose methods of judgement we both understand and respect. Status anxiety may be defined as problematic only insofar as it
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