Ali expects that within a few months a confident, richer entrepreneur will again draw him into wanting to scale or sell his business (2024)
prediction · status: due 2025; outcome not yet known · last event: predicted (2024-11-15) · owner: Ali
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-15 | predicted | Ali is sure that within a few months he will again speak to someone very confident, probably an American man making far more money than him, and be drawn to that person's ambitions for his business. | I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) 00:23:15 |
What is said about it
8 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2024-11-15 · I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) — announcement: Ali read Luke Burgis's Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire a while ago, and says his channel will make a video about it at some point. — 00:24:04
- 2024-11-15 · I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) — René Girard (quoted): René Girard's mimetic theory, as Wanting explains it: we often do not know what to want, so we adopt the desires of people around us, especially those we look up to. — 00:24:04
- 2024-11-15 · I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) — Ali: A mistake Ali has made repeatedly over the years is to change his business on the strength of a temporary want borrowed from someone he looks up to. — 00:24:33
- 2024-11-15 · I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) — Luke Burgis (quoted): Luke Burgis distinguishes thick from thin desires in Wanting: a thick desire is something you have always wanted. — 00:24:33
- 2024-11-15 · I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) — Ali's thick desires are to teach, which he has wanted and done since the age of 13, and to build and design things. — 00:24:33
- 2024-11-15 · I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) — Ali has never really wanted to sell a company for 50 million. — 00:24:33
- 2024-11-15 · I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) — Ali: When he comes back to who he is, Ali is content making a couple of million in profit a year and does not need more. — 00:26:03
- 2024-11-15 · I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) — Ali and Izzy rent in Hong Kong because houses there are too expensive for them to buy. — 00:26:03