Are Your Desires Really Yours? How to Recognize and Reclaim What You Truly Want with Luke Burgis

I think there's a typical attitude that people want what they want and whatever they want is fine. Well that's true, but not everything we want, not everything we desire is going to be good for us. Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.

We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter.

It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. I used to think my desires were mine, that they arose from some authentic core of who I am. Turns out I mostly learned them from other people.

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