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Desire: Why You Want The Things You Want with Luke Burgis

The Science of Success

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The Importance of Imitating

When we're caught up in this game with somebody that we've taken as a model of desire, we become more like them, not more frent. Even if on a superficial level, we can say, he's wearing a white tea, um ore in a black tea, or our party does this,. We are in fact, imitating each other at some deep level. And how do we disengage from that double bind? The disengagement starts with recognition. You know, there are certain desires that we have to renounce. and we can't renounce that which we're not aware of. There is a connection between awareness and renunciation, just having the ability to recognize that

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