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Mental Health
Supporting the Women in Our Lives: A Guide for Men
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As millions of workers around the world join The Great Resignation, the desire to throw in the towel for the potential of work that has more meaning, more flexibility, and more money has never looked more tempting. But before you hand in your resignation, it’s worth making sure that you’re doing it for the right reasons.
“We come to desire many things not through pure reason, but our tendency to mimic the desires and wants of other people,” explained Luke Burgis, author of “Wanting: The Power Of Mimetic Desire,” when I interviewed him recently. “And while it’s human nature for us to want what other people also want or have, studies find that it rarely leads us to fulfilment.”
If people we admire are quitting their jobs, then the mimetic pull to imitate their choices can make it hard to separate what we want from what we need.
This is because desire spreads person to person, like the energy between people at a concert or political rally. This energy can lead to a cycle of positive desire that channels energy into creative and productive pursuits that serve the common good, or it can become a cycle of destructive desire causing instability and confusion as competing desires interact in volatile ways.
So, how can you be sure you’re desire to quit your job is part of a cycle of positive change?
Luke recommends: