Rob Henderson joins me to discuss the nature of mimetic desire, the underlying purpose of advertisement, and the notion of agreeableness and disagreeableness.

Rob Henderson is a writer and psychologist. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force.

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00:00 - Coming up
00:47 - Intro
02:20 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing
03:06 - Introducing Rob Henderson
03:30 - What is Mimesis?
05:46 - The Nature of Mimetic Desire
07:16 - Psychological Impact of Advertising
08:25 - The Celebrity Flywheel Effect
11:25 - Followers: Quality over Quantity
12:17 - The Underlying Purpose of Advertising
14:38 - Secondary Effect of Advertising
16:03 - The Mirror Phase and Mimesis
19:58 - Imitation: From Survival to Prestige-Bias
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24:33 - Influence of Incentive and Technological Evolution
29:42 - Changing the Incentive Structure
32:13 - Anti-Mimesis: Doing the Opposite
35:03 - Agreeableness and Disagreeableness
37:34 - Effects of Evolutionary Impulse on Agreeableness
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43:47 - How Parents Can Navigate Child's Adolescence
47:00 - Temporal Nature of Emotions in Teenage Years
48:00 - Connection between Mimetic Desire and Rituals
50:37 - Mimesis of Social Media
52:48 - The Model of Desire
54:02 - Where to Find Rob on the Internet

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