Status Anxiety Pt. 3 (6 of 6)

[Freakin150]

This has made me realize, we try to make life what it isn't, when really we should be enjoying it for what it is. Thanks for uploading this documentary!

[1950redwing]

Great Show, great book, too bad I can't get the DVD in Canada...

[Piitsi]

For me status anxiety is a fear of not being loved. Not being good enough. But the love and admiration that we seek from the outside are really within us.

"Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it."

— D.H. Lawrence

If you are not loving, love your unlovingness. The rest will follow. :)

[Shadow1986]

Finished watching the entire series. Loved it.

[ElleFr0st]

why arent there documentaries like this one on discovery or nat geo ? their stuff is much more superficial !

[elaf1234]

highly relevant in this day and age. I do think we should strive to be the best we can but, and this is what I took from this, along the way nothing else really matters. It doesn't matter of reach the top or go to the bottom. It's hard but we must try.

[maykmendo1]

@s3nn5...Just want to say many thanks for your posting of this very wonderful series, which in fact has had a great impact on me and has ultimately alleviated so much of the stress I was feeling lately. I actually ran into this video by accident while searching for something else, and couldnt stop watching till I finished the entire thing lol...Very interesting, soothing and inspiring.

[HLecterPHD]

de bottons shoes are'nt even nike

[bavwill]

Well done!

[K3nley]

I loved this one. A good documentary with lots of thinking material, and I think it's also light enough so that most people can grasp the ideas.

[GirlsLikeMe]

Goddam this documentary really woke me the fuck up!!!

[blaziermissy]

ego and superficial values....a non conducive mixture for human happiness.

[blaziermissy]

I like this segment better than the others.

Superficial consumerism and anxiety over who has the most trinkets while billions starve. Incredibly crazy world, isn't it?

[silversobe]

"Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own." ~ Bruce Lee

"Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it." ~ JFK

[pinc8387]

hahahahahah, greatttt fucking documentary mannnn

[00Empty00Cup00]

Really great documentary. As usually, de Botton delivers. A LOT of food for thought here, and a lot to work out, maybe not so much in the head as in the living of it. Great stuff.

[tinyteens1]

can't believe the timing of this, incredible, and exactly what I needed to see/hear right now, it must be hard being men coz I think they suffer more with this somehow, considering how tough i'm finding dealing with status anxiety!

[blaziermissy]

@tinyteens1 lol...I agree. Free ourselves from this "contrived" insignificant behavior and we'll be happier and healthier.

[deejaynatural]

Hmm, very VERY important issues, these are the sortof things that our MOMENT to MOMENT lives are run on, it is very RELEVANT to us as a human species. (Happiness is unique). Can we use them to learn to live as a "happy whole"? or will it lead us to "greed and power"? Well.. Is there a difference? Where do we find "Happy"? What is unique?

[shipcomesin]

his documentaries are really good! But I wonder, what about those people who actually *do* get remembered after centuries, even millenia, because they did (created, invented etc.) something that helped the community? Of course many of them didn't enjoy any status during their lifetime....

interesting in any case!!

[ineby42]

"Contrary to what an optimistic mind set teaches us, everything will in fact turn out for the worst. We will die, our achievements will be forgotten, everything weve strived for will be ignored, and perhaps mocked and even our names will be stamped into the ground. Whatever our status, were all fated to end up that most democratic of substances, dust. There is no wealth, said John Ruskin, but life, including all its powers of love, joy and of admiration."

[imgeunja]

Awesome! Thanks for posting!

[Quantum148]

Speechless! Alain Bravo!

"We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts , the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor."

— Arthur Schopenhauer

[LTBL88]

This is an eye-opener. It's like a detailed and open articulation of behaviors that have bothered you your whole life but you've never been able to put your finger on, or talk to anyone about satisfactorily because they're so ingrained and widespread

[EB88]

If you liked this, there's another really good documentary by this guy called A Guide to Happiness that I think you can find on GoogleVideo.

I use to say that to my friends when they worried about silly fights they got into at work, I'd say "Who cares? 100 years, 1000 years from now, no one will give a f*** and no one will remember you. So don't worry about it."

[LaMoncha]

One of the best documentaries I have ever seen :) Thank you for uploading it !!

[angloricua]

This program was just what I was looking for, a breath of sanity in an insane world !

[Fractal40]

this film was simply beautiful. I'd like to extend my thanks for posting it as its a subject of much interest to me. Cheers!

[baalliny]

awesome...

[seeleunitone]

I just saw this on TV and I just thought it was so informative and very interesting.This needs to receive more views.I give this five stars