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.
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- Twitter: [https://twitter.com/wstorr?s=21&t=ZdtIqP9eE3_a5qZocDjEXQ]
- Website: [https://willstorr.com]
- The Science of Storytelling: [https://www.thescienceofstorytelling.com]
Show Notes:
00:00 – Intro
02:32 – Main Podcast
09:02 – The strange case of David Irving
16:07 – The fundamental nature of Status Games
17:33 – The Stanford Prison experiment
26:06 – Status games by cults
33:03 – Luxury Beliefs
37:41 – We’re all moral Hypocrites
42:49 – Social and socioeconomic status
50:31 – Human OS
01:04:56 – WW1 humiliation of Germany
01:15:07 – Crazy Beliefs
01:17:56 – The Value of religion
01:20:03 – Trading Status
01:28:51 – You could be 100% wrong about some beliefs
And more!
- Will’s origin story
- The importance of being funny
- How status seeking leads to the “very best of human nature”
- Loaded magazine
- 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
