Luke Burgess
10 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 31, 2022 by Luke Burgess · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
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May 31, 2022
May 31, 2022
Burgis: Followers change their desires whenever their mimetic model shifts interests
“When somebody has taken another person as a model, when the model changes their interest in, or desire for something, our The objects that we're interested in change along with them, because it was never the object that was the important thing in the first pla…”
May 31, 2022
May 31, 2022
Burgis: Hidden corporate 'Iagos' dictate office politics and organizational problems
“And I started to realize, well, there are like Iagos in every corporation too. They're like Iagos in most schools. There are these people that are powerful mediators to other people. And if you can identify who those people are and how they're operating you've…”
May 31, 2022
Burgis: People omit mimetic influences from life decisions to preserve perceived rationality
“There's the hindsight bias where the stories we tell ourselves about why we made the decisions that we did very, very often. Leave out a model of desire or a model of that behavior, because I don't know, because maybe it's an affront to our independence, to ou…”
May 31, 2022
Burgis: Unaddressed internal pressure leads to emotional numbness and inaction
“Sometimes I think with that slow building pressure, if you don't recognize it, and if you don't do anything about it, can actually lead to some sort of a tipping point that stops feeling like pressure and just sort of makes you dead inside. Like you almost for…”
May 31, 2022
Burgis: Role models demonstrate behaviors, while models of desire dictate wants
“A role model just models a role. They could model a lifestyle or a certain kind of behavior. But a role model is different than a model of desire to there, I can't think of a politician off the top of my head that is a role model for me because I don't desire …”
May 31, 2022
May 31, 2022
Burgis: Major life decisions should be made from emotional neutrality
“I think that it's never good to make a serious, big life-changing decision when we're in a period of desolation or like deep Deep anxiety. I think we're just more liable to make the wrong decision for the wrong reasons when we're in that place. Conversely, I t…”
May 31, 2022
Burgis: Forcing beneficial behaviors eventually generates the genuine desire to do them
“We have to sort of orient ourselves in a direction that we objectively or intellectually know is good for us, but that we don't want. Like, I don't want the things that are good for me. So sometimes I just have to do it, and I eventually want it. It's kind of …”