Status anxiety - feeling complacent or humiliated

Section: Human development

Number of pages: 315 pages

Publisher: Dar Al Tanweer for Printing and Publishing

In this book, de Botton explains that our quest to be loved and appreciated is greater than our quest to possess anything else. In fact, everything we do is aimed at improving our status. Our position on the social ladder plays a crucial role in our lives because our self-image depends heavily on what others see in us. But he also asks: Is the quest for status worth the sacrifices we make?
This book is considered the richest, most interesting and most widely read of de Botton's works, in which we see the breadth of its author's knowledge and insight, and the abundance, elegance and originality of his ideas.