For this study, de Botton asks where our worries about status come from and what, if anything, we can do to reduce them. He looks at how people have coped with ... » 

For this study, de Botton asks where our worries about status come from and what, if anything, we can do to reduce them. He looks at how people have coped with these anxieties in the past with a range of unexpected examples and entertaining anecdotes. «