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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

E167: The More Successful You Are The Longer You’ll Live: Will Storr

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Will is an author who brings out the unexpected ways that we’re vulnerable, and how to manage those vulnerabilities and turn them into strengths. The author of six books including Sunday Times bestsellers, he’s one of the most interesting voices on how we can manage our worst impulses to succeed in the modern world.

In a conversation that covers everything from are we more narcissistic than we used to be to how a desire for status underpins all of our ambitions, to how to deal with low self esteem and suicidal thoughts, Will held nothing back on this unfiltered exploration of the surprising strategies we can employ to deal with the dark sides of life.


Topics:

  • Your early years, how was your self esteem shaped those years 
  • Your book selfie, the inspiration
  • Would you have been happier if you were told you could succeed?
  • Am I actually making decisions?
  • How our genes control us
  • Story telling
  • Why does status matter?
  • Can we be to consumed by status?
  • We live longer with a higher status
  • Our pursuit of status is greater and our pursuit for money
  • The part social cues play in the ‘status game’
  • How do we advance in the status game?
  • What ingredients create happiness for you?
  • The last guest question


Will:

https://twitter.com/wstorr

https://www.instagram.com/williamstorr/


Will’s book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Status-Game-Will-Storr/

Will’s new book, The Status Game, is out now in the UK and in the US on the 23rd August.


Others books mentioned:

Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us

The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better


Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos


Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/diaryofaceo


Vodafone Business - https://bit.ly/3Nagd1l

Crafted - https://bit.ly/3JKOPFx

Huel - https://my.huel.com/Steven

Transcript

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0:00.0

You shouldn't raise your children to believe

0:01.2

that they can be Beyonce, because the chances are they can't.

0:04.3

World Store is an award-winning author

0:05.8

of six critically acclaimed books.

0:08.2

His ideas are disruptive, challenging, and life changing.

0:12.0

And some of them will make you feeling incredibly uncomfortable.

0:15.2

People don't like to talk about this stuff.

0:17.2

99% of self-help books never mention genes.

0:19.9

They want to promote that idea of what I can be whoever wants to be.

0:22.8

But a huge amount of who we are is who we were born as.

0:26.6

At Mythos, you have full control over yourself

0:29.0

of human being.

0:29.9

That's the problem.

0:30.9

It's not about embracing your flaws.

0:32.8

It's about accepting your flaws.

0:36.1

Our lives are full of status-be-shoe.

0:38.2

The more status that you earn, the better everything else gets.

0:41.0

But that was true 10,000 years ago.

0:43.2

It's true today.

0:44.4

The brain is highly attuned to where we sit in a pecking order.

0:47.3

The lower we are down in that pecking order,

0:49.2

the more unhealthy we became.

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