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Status Anxiety

We can overcome a feeling of unimportance not by making ourselves more important but by recognizing the relative unimportance of everyone. The more we judge ordinary people to be inferior, the more we wish to distinguish ourselves from them, propelling our status anxiety.
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nThis is a book about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: an anxiety about what others think of us; about whether we’re judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser. ALAIN de BOTTON (author)

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We can overcome a feeling of unimportance not by making ourselves more important but by recognizing the relative unimportance of everyone. The more we judge ordinary people to be inferior, the more we wish to distinguish ourselves from them, propelling our status anxiety.
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nThis is a book about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: an anxiety about what others think of us; about whether we’re judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser. ALAIN de BOTTON (author)

Weight 0.57 oz
Dimensions 21.5 × 15.2 × 2.8 in