Jan 18, 2012
Why We Do the Things We Do
People often do this or that, not because they want to do this or that, but because they want to be the kind of person who does this or that.
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And you wrote this because you wanted to be the kind of person who thinks things like this?
Probably.
I was thinking of things like guys who have affairs. It’s not about the sex, per se, but they want to be guys who have sex.
Similarly, I imagine that some people get into heroin because they want to be people who are into heroin (like their heroes).