Modern Wisdom

#479 - Johnathan Bi - Why Do Founders Love René Girard?

May 28, 2022

01:12:06

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How Can Metaphysical Desire Be Good for Society?

04:31

Memetic Theory

04:29

How to Design a Social Environment

02:08

Introduction

5min

Are You Trained in Gerard the Philosopher?

2min

What's Gerard's Cor Integration?

2min

Is This Different From Signalling?

3min

Is the iPhone a Status Symbol in the Night Life Game?

3min

I've Been on the Show, Right?

4min

Is That the Positive and Negative Memesis?

2min

The Intuition of the World

2min

What Drew You to Gerard Psychology?

4min

10.

What Does Drard Say About the Modern West?

2min

11.

Memetic Theory

4min

12.

Is Memesis Falsifiable?

3min

13.

How Does Gerard's View of Human Nature Change Your Life?

3min

14.

I've Been Through This, but What Is It?

3min

15.

The Red Pill of Human Nature Is Fallible

3min

16.

How to Design a Social Environment

2min

17.

The Memetic Impulse, Desire to Be A

2min

18.

What Do You Want to Want?

4min

19.

How Can Metaphysical Desire Be Good for Society?

5min

20.

Is There a Form of Memetic Theory?

1min

21.

The Confounding Variable That Leads People to Success

5min

22.

I'm a Deluded Child, and I Want to Get an Ivily, but I Want a Full Ride

2min

23.

Impostor Adaptation

2min

24.

The People That Are Supersuccessful Now Stand Out Way Before

2min

25.

Are You Trying to Play Yourself Up?

2min

26.

The One Thing to Take Away From Today?

3min

Johnathan Bi is a startup founder, philosopher and mathematician.

René Girard is one of the most popular philosophers in Silicon Valley. Why is it that an obscure French polymath from the 1900's would become one of the most influential and cited thinkers amongst founders, CEOs and leaders in high-growth companies?

Expect to learn how Girard believes that mimetic desire drives almost all of our behaviour, why breaking out from the group to do your own thing doesn't mean you're an individual, how having sex can end up not being for the enjoyment of sex, why Peter Thiel and so many others love Girard's work, how understanding Girard can improve your daily life and much more...

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