On Monday 1st September 2025 PropelHer’s Book Club discussed Happy High Status: Get the Secret to Lasting Confidence by Viv Groskop.
In this summary of Happy High Status by Viv Groskop. I’ll be briefly summarising the book to help you to make a decision about whether you should buy a copy of the book for yourself.
Happy High Status is split into an introduction and ten chapters. In the introduction, Viv shares what happy high status, what it isn’t and why adding happy high status to your vocabulary and life can be so powerful. Essentially happy high status is a type of confidence, but for many the term confidence has “baggage”. Viv writes “The truth is, we have an unnecessarily narrow and unhelpful definition of what confidence is and who has it”. Whereas “happy high status as a term is freeing because it is open to interpretation and does not have those connotations”.
After the introduction there are eight chapters with each chapter being devoted to a different type of happy high status:
- Vulnerable Happy High Status
- Dominant Happy High Status
- Balanced Happy High Status
- Generous Happy High Status
- ‘What If …?’ Happy High Status
- ‘Leader’ Happy High Status
- Athletic Happy High Status
For each of the happy high statuses Viv will go into detail about what that happy high status is. She’ll give a number of examples to help the reader really understand that version of happy status. Then, at the end of each chapter, there is a ‘How to get a piece of it’ section, which is where there are specific actions you take to help you start using that type of happy high status. Finally, the chapter ends with summary that includes traits, most useful for and examples of who succeeds at using that type of happy high status.
After going through the eight different types of happy high status there is chapter 9 where you learn about how the advice ‘just be yourself’ isn’t great and how to find your happy high status. Then the book ends with chapter 10 and Viv reminding the reader about how important it is to be confident and therefore the importance of finding and living in your very own happy high status.
That’s it! You now have an idea about what you can expect to find inside of Happy High Status by Viv Groskop.
Like the sound of Happy High Status by Viv Groskop. Why not buy a copy of the book and have a read?
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Happy High Status by Viv Groskop was read as part of PropelHer’s Book Club. PropelHer’s Book Club is an online non-fiction book club for ambitious women that meet monthly. Every month PropelHer’s Book Club reads a different book to help ambitious women concentrate on their personal development and professional success. You can see what else we have read so far here. If you would like to join PropelHer’s Book Club you can find full details here.
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