Alain de Botton, the most-read philosopher alive, has decided to answer some questions about his wonderful book Status Anxiety. The book focuses on the anxiety prevalent in many modern societies to be ...
Status anxiety is “A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives,” according to Alain de Botton. By keeping us in a state of self-doubt and comparison, the silent ...
SFGate: We're so vain / Alain de Botton probes why status is so important to us and explains how it makes us miserable
We're so vain / Alain de Botton probes why status is so important to us and explains how it makes us miserable
Londoner Alain de Botton kicked off his writing career with three well-received novels, but he’s probably better known for his subsequent nonfiction–self-help for the intellectual crowd like How ...
In 1997, Alain de Botton, a twenty-eight-year-old Swiss-born Londoner with a Cambridge degree and three hit novels on the shelves, took it upon himself to teach a broad, thinking, audience to benefit ...
Adam Bresnick writes for several publications, including the (London) Times Literary Supplement. According to Alain de Botton, human beings are beset with two essential desires: the desire for sexual ...
MSN: Unmasking the Invisible Chains of Status Anxiety and the Quest for True Fulfillment
Unmasking the Invisible Chains of Status Anxiety and the Quest for True Fulfillment
Its status tells you where it is in that series. Its state might be in disarray or on target regardless of status. In considering this I asked myself two questions: What is the status of X? What sort of state is X in? In reality, I suspect there is considerable overlap in the usage of state and status.