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Alain de Botton on Status Anxiety

submitted by Kulpims T'dna

(kulpims)
1 decade 8 months ago

Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton discusses his book Status Anxiety which examines our fears over what others think about us and about how we are judged to be either a success or failure.

6 Comments

alien_concept

I'm only ten minutes through and I already love this... have been having many conversations lately about the sad reality of how so many people care what others think, to the point that they aren't really being themselves anymore. Also, I think reserving judgement on people, even if you've known them forever, is underrated.

Okay, twenty minutes in and I have already thought of a dozen people who should watch this, so *promote!

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Sunday, September 22nd, 2013 4:47am PDT - promote requested by alien_concept.

Status Anxiety: Our Success-Obsessed Society has been added as a related post - related requested by Trancecoach on that post.

The documentary, from 2004.

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Alain de Botton on Pessimism has been added as a related post - related requested by Trancecoach.

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