The alchemy of finance is reflexivity. I markets and really all of social life is reflexive in the sense that where kind of all in this web together. And perception shapes reality. So if we perceive that there's going to be a crash in a stock or a market crash, it alters our behaviour. We might sell thinking that we'rethe first ones to get out. But then quickly changes perception again. There's just this reflexive feedback loop almost. Which is deeply related to this idea of mamesis and imitation,. Though we're always thinking about what other people about us.
#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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