Status Anxiety By Alain de Botton
"Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first - the story of our quest for sexual love - is well known and well chartered. The second - the story of our quest for love from the world - is a more secret and shameful tale. And yet this second love story is no less intense than the first."
This 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 failure, a winner or a loser. This is a book about status anxiety.
