The investment principle of liquidity is also highly relevant to desire design. You need to be able to quickly move funds from one form of investment to another so you can respond to new circumstances with agility.33 And you need to be able to modulate your desires quickly so you aren’t stuck wanting something which has already left the realm of possibility. By exercising the muscle of desire regulation, even when it seems unnecessary, you increase your emotional agility. Try to take a relatively weak desire and ramp it up to a strong craving. Try to take a desperate longing and reduce it to
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