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#138 Luke Burgis: The Power of Mimetic Desire

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Do You Think There's a Positive to Having a Desire?

Do you think there's positive to wanting things, even if the things we want won't ly fulfil us? Like ourn art desire sort of predictors of what we'll do and what we'll endure to get what we really want. So doesn't this whole human instinct towards mometic desire really push us farther, to get off our butt, to do more, to persevere? I think that desire is a positive thing. It's one of the things that makes us human. And that desire, oriented and channelled in the right way, ah, is is exactly what pushes people to endure.

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