What You Think You Want vs. What You Really Want, with Luke Burgis

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Have you ever spent years studying the wrong major, climbing the ladder at the wrong company, chasing the wrong career? </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Have you spent years living in the wrong city? Wrong relationship? Wrong lifestyle?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s hard to discern what *we think we want* from what we really want.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Society teaches us what we’re “supposed” to want. And we follow along.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The result is keeping up with the Joneses. It’s the hedonic treadmill. It’s lifestyle inflation. And it causes conflict, both within ourselves and with others. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today’s guest, Luke Burgis, discusses mimetic desire — how our “wants” are imitative — and how we can find our deeper truths. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-family: .AppleSystemUIFont;"><span style= "font-size: 12px;">For more information, visit the show notes at <a href="https://affordanything.com/episode335" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://affordanything.com/episode335</a><br /></span></span></span></p>