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Episode: Luke Burgis - Wanting - The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
Description: Comments or feedback? Send us a text! Psychological suffering appears to be greatly facilitated by unfavourable comparisons that we make between ourselves and others in many domains of life. However, there are surprising dynamics (and even upsides) to these comparisons or modelling depending on the context. Entrepreneur & author, Mr. Luke Burgis, joins us for a discussion of the themes in his widely acclaimed book Wanting - The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life. In this discussion we cover:important experiences in Luke's journey that led to him to want to write the book “Want...