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Hidden Models—Romantic Lies, Infant Truth

Hidden Models—Romantic Lies, Infant Truth

We don’t want things that are too easily possessed or that are readily within reach. Desire leads us beyond where we currently are. Models are like people standing a hundred yards up the road who can see something around the corner that we can’t yet see.

So the way that a model describes something or suggests something to us makes all the difference. We never see the things we want directly; we see them indirectly, like refracted light. 

Who are your models at work? At home? Who are the people influencing your buying decisions, your career path, your politics?

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