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#153 Beyond Mimetic Desires - Luke Burgis on the temptations of conformity, contemplating life in Starbucks, thick desires and thin desires, letting go of control, the importance of play, learning from different work cultures, his stay in Rome and becoming a father
The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd
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Paul: Thick desires are like diamonds that have been formed deep beneath the surface near to the core of the earth thin desires on the other hand are highly memetic contagious and often shallow. Paul: There's a market price for thin desires it's a very efficient market right these could be fancy jobs legible paths things like that but yeah it goes back to the same thing they're mispricing all these negative or externalities for your own life whereas leaning into those thick desires you can sort of sustain them over long term. He says he started taking his philosophy course almost 14 years ago when he was in college. "I'm really loving doing the show and for the first time have the support
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