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Status Anxiety
Status Anxiety | Alain de Botton
Anyone whos ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbors Lexus had better read Alain de Bottons irresistibly clear-headed new book, immediately. For in its pages, a master explicator of our civilization and its discontents turns his attention to the insatiable quest for status, a quest that has less to do with material comfort than with love. To demonstrate his thesis, de Botton ranges through Western history and thought from St. Augustine to Andrew Carnegie and Machiavelli to Anthony Robbins. Whether its assessing the class-consciousness of Christianity or the convulsions of consumer capitalism, dueling or home-furnishing, Status Anxiety is infallibly entertaining. And when it examines the virtues of informed misanthropy, art appreciation, or walking a lobster on a leash, it is not only wise but helpful. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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abbyreadz
Status Anxiety | Alain de Botton
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This was a really eye opening book! I learned a lot from it and was able to look inward and examine my own status anxiety. I wish the book was not so Catholic/Eurocentric, there is so much to learn from Eastern and Indigenous cultures about status.

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MargaretPinardAuthor
Status Anxiety | Alain de Botton
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I‘m finally able to get past de Botton‘s structural foibles—the man drops pictures, diagrams, and numbers wherever he wants in a serious text—and am managing to understand and ponder his points!
This is as close to #philosophy as I think I‘ll get, ever since college put me off.

It‘s useful to think about how we attach #moral #merit to #economic status to #happiness, and how it‘s only been 250 years! I hope things evolve again, and soon.
#status

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MargaretPinardAuthor
Status Anxiety | Alain de Botton
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The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our #ancestors is a perpetual #anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

I struggle with #deBotton‘s #structure every time I‘m intrigued by his thesis, but this time I finally pushed through/was in the right frame of mind to plough through the weird #d paragraphs and absorb the message.
A very important one about why we are unhappy—also perhaps a way out of #climatecrisis?!

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clockatoo800
Status Anxiety | Alain de Botton
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Pickpick

As written in the title, this book only has the key insights compressed to about 25 pages. It did not fail however to create the philosophical arguments on how and why there is status anxiety and what we can do about it.

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DavidThePavid
Status Anxiety | Alain de Botton
Pickpick

Excellent book, has a very strong message, very influential, must-read!

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Rockjonny
Status Anxiety | Alain de Botton
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I normally loathe self-help books, but I think this is something I really need to address

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thelityard
Status Anxiety | Alain de Botton
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"We may be happy enough with little if little is what we have come to expect, and we may be miserable with much when we have been taught to desire everything."

#AlaindeBotton #StatusAnxiety #Philosophy

MrBook Welcome to @Litsy ! We hope you enjoy your stay, I think you'll like it here 😎👍🏻. 8y
thelityard Thank you @MrBook . I think I'll like it too 😀 8y
MrBook 😊👍🏻 8y
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mauveandrosysky
Status Anxiety | Alain de Botton
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TBR Tuesday! This is a fun idea. 😀 Here are mine. Tagging the Alain de Botton book because I'm eagerly awaiting his newest one to arrive today and because I'm seeing him on Friday. 🤓

Josie I love it!!! I see The Goldfinch in there! It's at the top of my choices right now! 8y
mauveandrosysky @Josie The Secret History is one of my favorite books so I have no idea why it's taken me so long to read The Goldfinch! 😆 8y
SusanInTiburon Everything looks good! 8y
Taylor The Goldfinch is one of my favorite contemporary books. 8y
alohabetty AGOT! 🙌🏽 8y
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