Detailed Book Notes

Do You Really Know WHY You Want What You Want? If Not, Read This— Wanting by Luke Burgis

If you don’t understand this principle, you’ll be easily manipulated

Do you know what you want?

Do you know WHY you want what you want?

It may not be for the reasons you’d guess.

There are hidden influences working on you, impacting even the most basic thing about you — what you THINK you want, in work, play, and life.

In Wanting, author Luke Burgis explores the theories of a little known professor-philosopher who’s made a significant impact on the thought-life of Peter Thiel.

This book will tell you…

• How Freud’s nephew used powerful marketing techniques to turn droves of women into smokers in the mid-1900s
• How selling a single typewriter transformed Steve Jobs from a “shy, effacing…quiet guy” into the reality-distorting boss and founder of Apple?
• What the REAL reason was behind Romeo and Juliet’s families’ feud in Shakespeare’s infamous play

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Who this book is for: Readers and writers who are curious about psychology and…