Will Storr—The Status Game (EP.122)
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English - September 08, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBInvesting Business Entrepreneurship Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Will Storr is an award winning journalist and author. His book ‘The Status Game’ transforms our understanding of human nature by demonstrating how our unconscious desire for status ultimately drives our behaviour.
Important Links:
Website: https://willstorr.com
The Science of Storytelling: https://www.thescienceofstorytelling.com
Show Notes:
The strange case of David Irving
The fundamental nature of status games
The Stanford prison experiment and dominance games
The status games played by cults
Luxury beliefs
Why we are all moral hypocrites
The importance of being funny
Social status and socioeconomic status
Human OS and the education system
How status seeking leads to the “very best of human nature”
The murderous nature of reputation destruction
The post WW1 humiliation of Germany
Loaded magazine
Finding the true reason behind seemingly crazy beliefs
The value of religion
Trading status
Spreading humility
Why we could be wrong about our closest beliefs
Books Mentioned:
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History; by Howard Bloom
The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism; by Howard Bloom
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous; by Joseph Henrich
The Science of Storytelling; by Will Storr
Slaughterhouse-Five; by Kurt Vonnegut
Selfie: How We Became so Self-Obsessed and What It’s Doing to Us; by Will Storr
The Status Game: On Social Position and How We Use It; by Will Storr