Wanting

'A spellbinding read' - Adam Grant

'Luke Burgis makes Girard’s ideas come alive for those of us who don’t have a Ph.D. in literary studies. This fascinating and playful book will be of particular help for anyone who leads or manages people' - Jonathan Haidt

'I love the book' - Ryan Holiday

'Offer(s) some fresh perspectives on our desires, what is really driving them and how we take more control' - Financial Times, Best June Business Books

'By helping us understand the destructive power of mimetic desire, Burgis offers a way to extricate ourselves and our communities from its harmful grip to form a more human, empathetic, and value-based world' - Stephen Hanselman, co-author of Lives of the Stoics

‘Luke Burgis has produced the go-to book on this topic' - Tyler Cowen

'His prose is punchy. His anecdotes are entertaining. There are even witty cartoons... Part philosophical tract, part self-help guide, Wanting is a thought-provoking book. It's also a deeply moral one. Like many Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Burgis wants to create a better world. The ideas he presents, and his suggestions for action, seem to offer a more realistic hope than most' - Christina Patterson, The Sunday Times

'It's not merely a big-idea book, but a careful, brave and loving account of mimetic theory's transformative power in people's lives, including his own' - Matthew Packer, New Zealand Listener