Basic Instincts
Your internal signals aren't vague feelings to dismiss. They form a sophisticated guidance system that, when properly understood, offers direction more aligned with your unique gifts than any external business model could provide.
Abby Hue • Energy as Evidence: How Your Internal Signals Are Guiding You to Your Authentic Business Path
Lacking the capacity to act by the command of instincts while possessing the capacity for self-awareness, reason, and imagination—new qualities that go beyond the capacity for instrumental thinking of even the cleverest primates—the human species needed a frame of orientation and an object of devotion in order to survive.
Erich Fromm • To Have or To Be? (Continuum Impacts)
“Girard discovered that we come to desire many things not through biological drives or pure reason, nor as a decree of our illusory and sovereign self, but through imitation.”
Luke Burgis • Just a moment...
Luke Burgis: The Power of Mimetic Desire [The Knowledge Project Ep. #138]
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Think about which desires you really want to own and cultivate. It doesn’t matter whether they were originally mimetic or not – the intentionality that you bring to them can allow you to become the author of a new creation.
Aeon • How to Know What You Really Want | Psyche Guides
Instinct everywhere works as with the conception of an end, and yet it is entirely without one. Nature implants instinct where the acting individual is not capable of understanding the end, or would be unwilling to pursue it. Consequently, as a rule, it is only given prominently to animals, and in particular to those of the lowest order, which have
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