I love status

◎It is popular all over the United Kingdom and the United States and ranks on the best-selling list.
◎This book is De Botton's richest, most interesting, and most sincere work to date.

It can be said that every adult's life is centered on two kinds of love. The first kind of love - the pursuit of love between the sexes - has long been widely circulated and recorded. The second kind of love—the pursuit of status—is more private and humiliating. However, the intensity of the second kind of love is no less than that of the first kind. "

No matter ancient or modern, status is so attractive that all living beings are chasing after it.

Behind such diligent pursuit, there is a kind of "status anxiety" that few people can admit frankly: worrying about how others view themselves, and worrying about whether they are successful or unsuccessful in the eyes of others. Relying on the powerful, speculating, and over-consumption for the sake of appearance are all typical symptoms, causing people to lie awake at night.

Alan DeBotton, with his usual brilliant writing, quotes the views and actions of thinkers, artists and writers to lead us to peel back the cocoons and explore the root causes of status anxiety. Not only that, in order to let us express our anxiety, De Botton also carefully provides a series of unique recipes: imitating ancient Greek philosophers and Bohemian cultural figures, or reading caricatures, or even looking at the stones of ruins , display skulls on the cabinets...

Open this book and listen to Deborton's witty and wise analysis and advice, so that we can avoid the pain of pursuing status and enjoy the sweetness and peace of life.