#1011 Will Storr - The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It
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Hello, everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Will Stor. He's an author and journalist. And today we're talking about his book, The Status Game. Hon human life and how to play so Well, welcome to the show. It's a big pleasure to everyone. Yeah, it's great to be on. Thanks you got, thanks for asking me. So my first question could you tell us perhaps about the premise of the book and also a little bit about
Pump the story behind it, I mean what led you to writing this book? Yeah, sure. So the the the the the premise of the status game is to um to put the the kind of The pursuit of status um is a fundamental part of the human condition.
Um status is a ne is is a need. Like humans need it. It's not like a nice to have. It's a need. And so if you accept this premise Um then Status manifests All over the place in human culture, in human society, in human behavior. And so what I wanted to do with the status game was to try and reveal
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