Status Is the Need to Feel Valuable

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People need to feel valued. They need to feel that the people they share their lives with see them as a valuable person. When we don't feel valued, we get depressed, we get ill. If you go for status, everything else gets better - this is an ancient and elemental rule of human brains.

Will Storr is an award-winning writer and author of six books, including his newest, The Status Game. His journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The New Yorker and The New York Times. He has also been presented with the AIB Award for Best Investigative Documentary for his BBC radio series.

Will's book, The Status Game, is available now!

Learn more about Will at willstorr.com.