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What People Are Really Doing When They Play Hard to Get
Most people have a faulty way of motivating themselves. They’re motivated to get whatever they want—money, romance, status—because they feel they don’t have enough already. This feeling of lack is a powerful motivator, but you pay a huge price for it. That price is the ongoing feeling that there’s always something missing. Even if you get something
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Mimetic desire is the idea that people desire something because someone else desires it, or that one person's desire mimics another's . Concept developed by French philosopher René Girard, who observed that people's desires don't come from within, but rather they mimic what other people want.
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According to mimetic theory, others act as models of desire for us.
Vita Benes
Buried in a deeper layer of our psychology is the person or thing that caused us to want something in the first place. Desire requires models—people who endow things with value for us merely because they want the things.