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I think this blog post covers a lot of ground while not really diving deep into any of the points it tries to make. I just want to highlight a couple of them because they are particularly important to me.

The concept of "you can desire only what you don't have" coupled with "you borrow your desires". Every thought in our head comes from a previous input, a lot of the same kind of inputs will spark a lot of the same thoughts and naturally they will spawn desires. I was on a work trip last year with two of my colleagues. They are into music (I'm not) and naturally a lot of the conversations were around singing and producing. I left that trip feeling an intense desire of trying out mixing/DJing for the first time in my life. I definitely attribute that to talking intensely about music for a few days for the most part.

The other one is: there's value in being wrong and in experiencing negative things. I'm not going out seeking traumatic experiences or anything but I yearn for new experiences for a variety of reasons. Even smaller ones such as a new restaurant to try out sometimes can suck, can be a waste of time/money but as long as the negatives aren't that impactful I think that the small gems you find a long the way paired with the funny stories you get about the bad ones are very much worth the potential negative experiences. I often talk to people that "feel stuck" or on "autopilot" and I do think that always doing the same things over and over has diminishing returns on happiness and joy. Trying out new things I'd say is generally a good idea (common sense applies, as always).