Episode · No Stupid Questions · 2024-06-02
Books mentioned on 198. What Does It Mean to Be “Cool”?
What’s the difference between being popular and being cool? How has social media changed the trend cycle?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Cool
Discussed“Anyway, two of them got together and wrote this book, and it is on neuro-economics, but it's actually called 'Cool: How the Brain's Hidden Quest for Cool Drives Our Economy and Shapes Our World.' And what Quartz's research and other neuroscientists' research show is that we have a basic human need for status and to be respected.”
