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Why do you want the things you want?

Andrew Yang Podcast

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How to Overcome Destructive Dynamics

Naming models of desire is a powerful way to gain power over what you want. One of the most positive things that ever happened to me in my life was when I went on a silent retreat. The thick desires are often just completely crowded out by the thin mimetic desires. And if I spend the rest of my life just chasing thethin mimetic desires and not even letting the thick ones bubble up to the surface, I won't know they're there.

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