I remember one thing that stood out from your book, and i'm trying to find the exact phrase, but it was a concept called, what was it? The something of silence? The spiral of silence. I think all of us are familiar with at some level in politics. And yet, i wonder how much that affects us, not just in politics, but in our lives, right? In the way that we consume the media. It's the conversations that we're not having, i think, rather than the convers ons that we are, that are really contributing to a lot of the sort of anxiety that people are feeling,. sure. You know, despite how uncomfortable it can be
#335: Have you ever spent years studying the wrong major, climbing the ladder at the wrong company, chasing the wrong career?
Have you spent years living in the wrong city? Wrong relationship? Wrong lifestyle?
It’s hard to discern what *we think we want* from what we really want.
Society teaches us what we’re “supposed” to want. And we follow along.
The result is keeping up with the Joneses. It’s the hedonic treadmill. It’s lifestyle inflation. And it causes conflict, both within ourselves and with others.
Today’s guest, Luke Burgis, discusses mimetic desire — how our “wants” are imitative — and how we can find our deeper truths.
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