Maybe your desires are delusional
Desire (as opposed to need) is an intellectual appetite for things that you perceive to be good, but that you have no physical, instinctual basis for wanting – and that’s true whether those things are actually good or not.
Luke Burgis • How to Know What You Really Want
There’s a name for this magical wish: false hope. You’re not aware of your false hopes; they’re buried in your unconscious like a hidden virus. You only discover them when you get whatever you were consciously hoping for and end up feeling let down and demoralized.
Barry Michels • Coming Alive: 4 Tools to Defeat Your Inner Enemy, Ignite Creative Expression & Unleash Your Soul's Potential
We convince ourselves to want things because we think it’s what we are supposed to be doing or more common, we get hijacked by the desires of others.1 I convinced myself I wanted to be a consulting partner because it seemed sensible and I didn’t actually have experience following my own interests. A lot of times our wants are underdeveloped simply ... See more