The Profile Dossier: Will Storr, the Storytelling Scientist

"Story emerges from human minds as naturally as breath emerges from between human lips.”

Will Storr says there’s one game in life that you can’t opt out of: The status game.

As humans, we’re programmed to seek, crave, and reach for status, and we do it in the most irrational ways. “Humans are extraordinarily imaginary creatures who use almost anything to symbolize status: money, Twitter followers, literary tastes, power, the brand of a watch…