#99 Will Storr: Selfies, Self-esteem & Our Environment

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Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

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🗓️ 23 May 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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This episode is with Will Storr, journalist and author of many books including his most recent work of non-fiction called SELFIE. We talk about his new book Selfie: how we became so self-obsessed and what it’s doing to us. He unpicks our society’s longing for self-esteem and where this came from – and how we are products of our own environment. Why do we have to be confident extroverts to be successful? Truth is, we don’t. He writes that the perfect self is propaganda and doesn’t actually exist. It’s rather liberating to hear Will’s thoughts on how you don’t have to be the person the media wants you be. We also chatted a bit about the future of work, we have a friendly conversational debate and seeing it from each other’s perspectives. We live in a world where people are so one-sided most of the time, and Will gives some tips at the end on how to spot if you are holding an idea too sacred and how to be more self-aware. Hope you enjoy this one!

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0:56.7	Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-Alt Delete. So today's guest is
1:01.8	Will Store. So he is the author of his new book called Selfy.
1:06.0	So I really enjoyed this book. I thought it was really, really interesting. It talks a lot about loads of subjects that I'm really fascinated with, the internet and our identities and our
1:16.2	environments. So really recommend the book. He unpicks this idea of self-esteem that is such a big part of our culture.
1:24.0	There's lots of really interesting research about where this idea of
1:28.0	being this confident, amazing extroverts self
1:31.0	because it wasn't always that way in our culture.
1:33.7	Loads of interesting conversations about this perfect self that the media and
1:37.8	Instagram and the world tells us to be.
1:40.8	So yeah, it's quite liberating this read because it kind of inspires you
1:44.3	that actually you don't have to be the person that the media always tells you to be
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