How To Find Your True Desires - Luke Burgis | Pathless Path Podcast

Luke has a background on Wall Street and has founded 3 companies in Silicon Valley. He describes his adult life as a constant state of uncertainty. At some point, he took a classics course, which he completed in a 24-hour Starbucks in a couple of months while living in Las Vegas. This led to him to contemplate deeper questions, leaving "entrepreneur Luke" behind and spending 3 years in Rome. Luke is now a Professor at the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship and has written a book - "WANTING: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life." The book is one of the best ones I've read in the past couple of years and we talk about some of the ideas in the book and how they intersect with Luke and my life.
Links:
Personal website: lukeburgis.com/
Twitter: lukeburgis?s=20
Luke's book: amzn.to/3pxlQRm
Luke's Newsletter: read.lukeburgis.com/
⏳Timestamps
0:00:00 Video intro
0:01:17 Guest introduction
0:02:25 The scripts that Luke grew up with
0:09:30 Playing safe, pleasing the system
0:11:39 "The prestige bug"
0:16:09 Book publishing the temptations of conformity
0:23:36 The memetic desires & The romantic lie of our own desires
0:29:07 Doing the classics course after hours
0:33:55 The importance of play & Feeding the spirit
0:36:42 Thick Desires & Thin Desires
0:44:15 Waiting for his child to be born
0:46:27 What brought Paul to Taiwan?
0:47:58 Creativity, Being open & Letting go of control
0:50:58 Learning from different work cultures & transcending the system
0:58:15 "The Three Cities Problem" - Reason, Faith & Technology
1:03:29 The best things about universities
1:06:38 The next chapter of Luke's journey
1:09:03 Preparing for birth & parenting
1:15:17 Luke's path role models
1:18:16 Closing remarks
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[@MissBardoJeep]

mimetic desire -- nice to have a word for this.

[@henry8651]

Came for the Luke interview then find out you're based in TW. Welcome to the island (quaint place isn't it), you've almost the full experience with earthquakes just missing an actual typhoon. Anyhow, subscribed!

[@PaulMillerd]

actually in the US now but spent many years in taiwan!

[@mostlynotworking4112]

Oh will Luke have so many insights into the abundance of mimetic desires once you have the kid Comparison is inevitable in countless categories. It is necessary and yet can suck you in so strongly Paul is the perfect convo partner

[@AlexPresa]

I loved the 3 Cities analogy! Helps frame certain things a lot :)

[@mostlynotworking4112]

Subtle but hilarious thumbnail

[@wyzmotorsport664]

Are you Millie from helluva boss ?