Sep 8, 2022
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:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/wstorr?s=21&t=ZdtIqP9eE3_a5qZocDjEXQ
- Website: https://willstorr.com
- The Science of Storytelling:
https://www.thescienceofstorytelling.com
Show
Notes:
- Will’s origin
story
- 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 Unpersuadables: Adventures
with the Enemies of Science; by Will Storr
- 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