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Mobi Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life with Free PDF EDITION Download Now!

* Financial Times Business Book of the Month * Next Big Idea Club Nominee *A groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from chasing unfulfilling desires.Gravity affects every aspect of our physical being, but there’s a psychological force just as powerful—yet almost nobody has heard of it. It’s responsible for bringing groups of people together and pulling them apart, making certain goals attractive to some and not to others, and fueling cycles of anxiety and conflict. In Wanting, Luke Burgis draws on the work of French polymath René Girard to bring this hidden force to light and reveals how it shapes our lives and societies. According to Girard, humans don’t desire anything independently. Human desire is mimetic—we imitate what other people want. This affects the way we choose partners, friends, careers, clothes, and vacation destinations. Mimetic desire is responsible for the formation of our very identities. It explains the enduring relevancy of Shakespeare’s plays, why Peter Thiel decided to be the first investor in Facebook, and why our world is growing more divided as it becomes more connected.Wanting also shows that conflict does not arise because of our differences—it comes from our sameness. Because we learn to want what other people want, we often end up competing for the same things. Ignoring our large similarities, we cling to our perceived differences.Drawing on his experience as an entrepreneur, teacher, and student of classical philosophy and theology, Burgis shares tactics that help turn blind wanting into intentional wanting--not by trying to rid ourselves of desire, but by desiring differently. It’s possible to be more in control of the things we want, to achieve more independence from trends and bubbles, and to find more meaning in our work and lives.The future will be shaped by our desires. Wanting shows us how to desire a better one.

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Mobi Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life with Free PDF EDITION!

This was an incredible read, I highly recommend it. I am usually a fiction reader but I love the occasional "big idea" book. This one is unique. It's "big" -- big but engrossing and totally relatable. The book stays snappy thanks to the author's comfortable voice and creative storytelling.Wanting is about a theory of the French philosopher/polymath Rene Girard, called Mimetic Desire, and our lives. It may sound esoteric-- but it's universal.It means, basically, that we want what other people want, but because other people want it. We are constantly looking to models (classmates, celebrities, colleagues) to shape our desires. Burgis is able to do what I find to be the gold standard in nonfiction- taking heady ideas and presenting them in a way that allowed me to instantly draw connections to their relevance and impacts in my own life.Burgis clearly shows-- through stories from his life, fascinating anecdotes of people living and in history, literature, biology, and even business-- what mimetic desire is, how pervasive it is in our lives, and some of the dangers of living unattuned to its existence.Not to leave us hanging, the second half of the book points to how we can use our knowledge of this imitative type of desire to help quiet some of the mimetic noise in our busy lives and focus, on what he calls, "thick desires."I would recommend this book to anyone, but especially anyone looking to gain deeper understanding of themselves and our society, and looking to take hold of their future. Beautifully done.

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