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How to Know What You Really Want | Psyche Guides
TO GET TO the root of why ambition and goal-setting don’t quite deliver the happiness they promise, we need to look a little more deeply at how we tend to desire. ‘Get what you want’ remains a mantra of modern living, as if we each had the birthright to accumulate whatever we think will make us happy.
Derren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
We are woefully incapable of being satisfied with a prior desire, and many people argue that this is just a part of the human condition. That greed resets any goals you once had, and short of becoming a monk, you are destined to shift that goal by a few more commas.
Of course, there is some truth to this, but I think this view only scratches the sur... See more
Of course, there is some truth to this, but I think this view only scratches the sur... See more
Lawrence Yeo • The Many Worlds of Enough
But where there is a threat, there’s an opportunity. Desire isn’t fully reflected in the way things are. Desire is, by its very nature, transcendent. We are always looking for more. The question is, will we help people move a little closer to fulfilling their greatest desires? Or unknowingly peddle them pathetic ones?