“Envy tells us what we really want. And so to kind of ignore that information, I think, is a mistake.”

HBR IdeaCast · When You Feel Envy, Turn It Into Something Productive

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Argue that suppressing envy is a mistake because envy provides information about what you really want

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“I like to start, for example, by studying that person that I envy. There's thankfully a lot of information online. Right. If I admire an author, for example, I will go and search for every podcast that they've been on and hear more about their writing process and then figure out, OK, well, what's something I can try out?”
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