Luke Burgis on Mimetic Desire and Getting What You Want in Life
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🗓️ 5 June 2021
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Summary
On today’s episode Ryan talks to author Luke Burgis about his new book Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life, the philosophy of French polymath René Girard, getting to the truth of what you should want in life, and more.
Luke Burgis has co-created and led four companies in wellness, consumer products, and technology. He’s currently Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Director of Programs at the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship where he also teaches business at The Catholic University of America. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife, Claire, and her crazy New Orleans cat Clotille.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:10.5 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke each weekday |
| 0:14.8 | We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes |
| 0:18.7 | Something to help you live up to those four stoic virtues of courage justice |
| 0:23.9 | Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend |
| 0:27.0 | We take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview stoic philosophers. We explore at length |
| 0:35.0 | How these stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time |
| 0:42.8 | Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down |
| 0:47.8 | Be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring |
| 1:01.6 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke podcast |
| 1:08.8 | I've talked about René Girard before |
| 1:11.2 | I talked about him in my book conspiracy. I don't remember exactly when I heard of |
| 1:18.6 | René Girard's theories, but they did suck me in and they're fascinating and I think they're worth reading |
| 1:25.7 | Because they explain one of the most |
| 1:29.1 | fundamental driving forces in the whole world which is |
| 1:32.7 | Why do we want what we want and what does wanting stuff make us do now? |
| 1:38.4 | The stoics talk a lot about sort of desire and curbing desires |
| 1:42.0 | They don't get as much into the psychology the |
| 1:46.0 | Sort of the societal forces the historical forces that make people |
| 1:50.5 | Desire and crave this versus that that make that suck people into conflict with each other whether they know |
| 1:58.5 | What the sources of that conflict actually are or not |
| 2:02.0 | So I was so excited that Luke Burgess reached out |
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