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How to Know What You Really Want | Psyche Guides
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It’s revealing to think of mimetic desire along a continuum. Certain people and organizational cultures are more prone to mimesis than others. And one thing is clear, on a societal level: any society in which people are no longer struggling with scarcity but coping with abundance will undergo an explosion of mimetic desire. In this universe of desi... See more
read.lukeburgis.com • Mimetic Desire 101 - Anti-Mimetic—A Field Guide to Mimetic Desire
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Recipe for misery: Pursue things because society tells you to, not because you truly want them. Achievements are meaningless if they aren’t out of our desires but a product of mimesis.
Jonathan Bi • Lecture I: Introduction to Mimetic Theory | René Girard's Mimetic Theory
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We have instinctual responses to help us choose the objects that meet our most basic needs—when we’re hungry, we seek food; when we’re cold, we want warmth. But there is an entire universe of desires for which we have no instinctual basis for choosing one object or another. For these objects of desire, Girard saw that the most important factor in
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What if, buried in your ambition, is a desire for something more, someone else? Might that explain the persistent disappointment?