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#479 - Johnathan Bi - Why Do Founders Love René Girard?
Modern Wisdom
What's Gerard's Cor Integration?
Gardner's most fundamental insight is we don't often desire things for the things themselves, but for what the things say about us. Metaphysical desire is actually not aimed at the object itself, but what the object says about me. It's a desire to be, rather than a desire to experience. And that this sort of insight expands across all our decisions. We could an it would take on a job because o what the job says about us. But we could also take on the job becuse we actually like the activity in and of itself.
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