Author, "WANTING: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life." Entrepreneur-in-Residence & Professor at Catholic University. 3x Founder.
Our desires are not our identity. Believing that they are—believing that if we desire something that it is therefore "who we are" —is a sickness of modernity that I believe stems from a false notion of freedom. I have wanted many things in my life that I believed at the time were good, but which left me completely miserable once I had them. (It's enough to look at pictures of myself in high school to see my folly...) https://lnkd.in/gGjr_e4u