{"product_id":"selfie-how-we-became-so-self-obsessed-and-what-its-doing-to-us-9781468316957","title":"Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us","description":"We are living in an age of heightened individualism. Success is a personal responsibility. Our culture tells us that to succeed is to be slim, rich, happy, extroverted, popular--flawless. We have become self-obsessed. And our expectation of perfection comes at a cost. Millions are suffering under the torture of this impossible fantasy. The pressure to conform to this ideal has changed who we are.It was not always like this. To explain how we got here, award-winning journalist Will Storr leads us on a \"terrific tour through the history of self-obsession\" (NPR, On Point) that explores the origins of this notion of the perfect self that torments so many of us: Where does this ideal come from? Why is it so powerful? Is there any way to break its spell?Full of thrilling and unexpected connections among history, psychology, economics, neuroscience, and more, Selfie is an unforgettable book that makes sense of who we have become. Ranging from Ancient Greece, through the Christian Middle Ages, to the self-esteem evangelists of 1980s California, the rise of the \"selfie\" generation, and the era of hyper-individualism in which we live now, Selfie tells the epic tale of the person we all know so intimately--because it's us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStorr, Will:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eWill Storr\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning journalist and novelist whose work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. His books include \u003ci\u003eSelfie: How the West Became Self-Obsessed\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science\u003c\/i\u003e (Overlook\/Abrams Press). His writing courses are among the most in-demand offerings of the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e Masterclasses and the Faber Academy. He lives in Kent, England.","brand":"Abrams Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50466395783442,"sku":"9781468316957","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5e77777b-0a78-4185-ba29-48fd1c2c4c79.jpg?v=1730119943","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/selfie-how-we-became-so-self-obsessed-and-what-its-doing-to-us-9781468316957","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}