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#143 Andrew Wilkinson: Building an Empire

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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You Want Memetic Desire

Luke burgess wrote a book called wanting. It's about the idea of memetic desire and memetic desire. Whatever the people you surround yourself with, you end up wanting as well. Most people don't intrinsically actually want those thing. They just want it because other people have modelled it as a desirable thing. And so what happened for me was that i ah before before i got home and i did that reboot, i had spent a year going through the world of high finance,. meeting all these billionaires, successful people  and realizing what made me sad is that these are the people that have reached the very top a. All sorts of successful encpners, and they're

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