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How and Why We Play Social Status Games - Will Storr

Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal

CHAPTER

The Science of Status

The author talks about how she came to write her book, and the people who inspired it. She says that while researching selphy culture in western Australia, she realised we're all playing different status games. The story is based on a real-life experience of working with an alphamaal ghost dryer for more than 20 years.

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