I wrote about the things we want to want (and why getting what you desire often feels like arriving at nothing)

Last year I took 27 flights across Africa. Mostly for work. A colleague told me: "Khalil, in two years, I saw you only once pursuing what you love doing." That one sentence sent me into weeks of thinking about what I love versus what I need to do.

But the real discovery was a third category I hadn't expected. Things I want to want.

They are not the things that I actually desire, but rather things where I liked the idea more than the thing itself.

I wrote about it through Žižek, Schopenhauer, hedonic adaptation, and my personal life experience.

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