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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Mimesis governs everything we desire.
Chapter 3: Models are all around us, and we weaken their influence by naming them.
Chapter 4: Models influence us differently depending on whether they’re within or beyond our social world.
Chapter 5: Mimesis can become a virtuous cycle, provided someone ultimately breaks it.
Chapter 6: Mimetic crises can only be resolved once a scapegoat is chosen and punished.
Chapter 7: Mimetic structures tie us to contrived, unrewarding objectives.
Chapter 8: Business leaders need to reflect on the desires they are shaping.
Chapter 9: Compassion breaks mimetic deadlocks and ignites constructive patterns of desire.
Chapter 10: We need to move from designing desire to reshaping desire.
Description
Wanting (2021) provides a riveting, philosophical answer to the question Why do we want the things we want? Drawing on theories originally developed by the celebrated polymath René Girard, it reveals an uncomfortable truth: that our desires are all ultimately a product of other people’s desires. The point isn’t to eliminate them, but rather to choose, carefully and consciously, which ones we should actually strive for.
Who Should Listen
- Lovers of philosophy, psychology, and literature
- Dedicated self-improvers
- Young entrepreneurs and business leaders