When I was young, I didn't feel it, but when I grew up, I found more and more a desperate reality, that is, the poor are getting poorer, the rich are getting richer, and the gap between the rich and the poor is gradually widening. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info has always thought that this gap is because the rich have the ability to provide more social resources for their children, the platform is different, the vision is not the same, and the human and material capital that can be used is different, but there is still a big gap, which lies in the mentality! That is, the mentality of the poor who feel that they are poor fundamentally denies themselves. Because I don't have any money, I don't have the spare money to invest, to enrich myself, to learn knowledge and skills (so as to get more long-term returns), to have fun and keep in touch with friends and classmates, and I can't participate in or even avoid social activities regularly (thus narrowing my social circle and lacking human capital); Because I don't have time, I can't think about the future at all, and I won't bother me about the things I can't see, the things that are now are enough for me to be anxious, and even have to overdraft the time for the next thing that must be done. Procrastination, constant procrastination, finally this thing is ok, and the next thing becomes more urgent because the previous thing has been delayed for too long, so people are always complaining about the lack of time; Because I'm lonely, I want people to like me so much, what should I do, is it good to say this, hey, what is his reaction, does he hate me? Alas, I must have been boring and unattractive, how could I be so useless and behave badly in such an important matter. In fact, others don't see it that way, and lonely people aren't any more boring or unattractive, the problem is that they focus too much on their own scarcity.

And once people focus on their own scarcity, "Oh, why am I so poor", "Ah, I don't have time, don't bother me", "What should I do, it's too late", "I'm so lonely, everyone doesn't like me, look, they ignore me again", and they are anxious all day for their livelihood, what should we do here? The exam is tomorrow, why is it so fast, and the books haven't been read yet? Oops, I can't finish it, I wish I had prepared a little in advance, I'm so confused, I went to the movies yesterday, ahhhh So, your heart is full, and in layman's terms, the brain's ability to process information is limited, like a tube, and bandwidth is your ability to process information. Once your mind is full of the problem at hand, your bandwidth is taken up a large part of it, like a congested road, where you can only see the problem at hand, and everything outside the pipe is blocked out by you. Become a frog sitting in a well and watching the sky, only seeing the sky that can be seen from the narrow wellhead, and leaving all the sky outside the small corner behind, the so-called blind eye, hearing but not hearing, that is, "blind sight". Even if we realize that if we don't deal with this matter now, it could cause more harm in the distant future, and we can't care so much about it. So we always fail in dieting, when faced with temptation, we will succumb to the happiness of the moment, enjoy the deliciousness of food, and to pay long-term and continuous efforts to diet and exercise always seems so difficult, a small accident, is enough to disrupt all our plans, the longer term, far to the hard-to-see results finally excluded in our "tube", consciousness, as if forgetting to lose weight, healthy diet can bring us what kind of changes and benefits. We kept tearing down the east wall and making up the west wall, and finally coped with the current trouble with all our energy, but the next trouble followed. Because when we are in the middle of the previous problem, the next problem is often inadvertently conceived, and we always focus on our immediate problem, ignoring or even contributing to the next problem. Just like buying a bag of rice for your home and a large household appliance that you need, it seems that it is much more reliable and necessary than vaccinating your child, buying insurance for cancer, or even providing risk protection for earthquakes. People always underestimate the probability of small probability events, so bank loans with small interest rates have always been ineffective, while private loans with high interest rates for small amounts, such as the cost of a bride price, are becoming more and more rampant. And such a result is nothing more than paying a greater price, making our financial pressure snowball and becoming poorer and poorer.

Our cognitive abilities are limited, and scarcity may be referred to here in terms of working memory, but it is clear that scarcity has a deeper meaning. It deserves to be a state of mind. When you develop a scarcity mentality, you assume that you are poor, that you are busy, that you are lonely. Once we form this cognitive presupposition, you will keep repeating the vicious cycle of poverty, busyness and loneliness. All your creativity, all your cognitive ability, and all your executive power are consumed in meaningless entanglements (of course, these considerations of the real poor and busy people are necessary, but maybe we can look a little further and how to avoid cognitive limitations, the "peep view" brought about by scarcity, so as to avoid being more poor, busy and lonely). The bandwidth burden caused by scarcity, like a bomber buzzing in our heads, the brain is uncontrollably told to run in the state of noise or when people have insomnia, we are always in anxiety and worry, and Li Dazhao's words are reversed, "It's not good to play, and it's not good to learn", even if we go out to relax, we will unconsciously think about the thing that worries us, appear absent-minded, and even reduce people's IQ (make people stupid), making it more difficult for us to control our impulses. Reduced execution. And this mindset has the effect of being equivalent to 13 or 14 on your IQ score, which can directly raise your IQ from "average" to "outstanding" (or "imbecile"). In terms of executive control, a study of Indian sugarcane farmers showed that they were 11% slower to respond in poverty than in wealth, and made 15% more mistakes than in the latter (remember that this is the same person in different states). How amazing! It's just that people's cognitive attitudes are different, and how much IQ and execution fluctuate caused by the scarcity mentality. It can be seen that maybe we are not as stupid as we think, so lack of perseverance, just because of our scarcity mentality! (Of course, there may be a variety of other complex reasons)

However, this scarcity mentality is not entirely under our control. Research shows that both poor and rich people will develop a scarcity mentality once they are in poverty, which will reduce fluid intelligence and execution. (Poverty is the most typical, let's take poverty as an example) from this point of view, that is, the ass determines the head. Because we are in different positions, we have different mindsets. For people in poor African countries, it may be enough to have enough to eat, for the poor in the United States, it may not feel so scarce to have a separate bathroom space, and for the poor in Europe, it may be enough to buy a car and be worthy of the poverty line. Our position often determines what state we are in, whether we are scarce or abundant. A person who is rich has enough buffer zone to be able to roam freely and not get bogged down by a wrong act of spending. In the same way, if you buy a fur that is not practical and can easily spoil, the rich can throw it into the cupboard without care, never wear it again, and break an expensive vase without feeling anything; As for the poor, they often exhaust their wages for one or two months, and the direct consequence may be that they cannot get the next month's rent and fall to the point of living on instant noodles. The so-called "spare time" is like a buffer of emergency funds, which can save your life at the most critical time and avoid falling into debt. Therefore, we often say that like Lao Tzu sticking out his tongue to "overcome rigidity with softness", the Zen family is not in a hurry or slow, and plays Tai Chi, leaving enough room for themselves, and before the train is about to leave, 20 minutes in advance will not be in a hurry. That's why people say that your fear is the biggest enemy, and you can use all the strength you can exert internally. Wouldn't it be better to slow down, relax, give yourself a little more time, save a little more money, and not be a "loser" who is so (financially, temporally, socially) who has been captured by scarcity? Don't make your own schedule full, otherwise if you are not careful, this is not completed, which will cause the next one to be late, forever "late" state, always in the next one when others do the next one, non-stop rushing to the next task, like dominoes one to overturn the whole plate and lose. Don't be confined to the mindset of management, take a long-term view, and see how we are busier and less timeless, poorer and less money, and more lonely and friendless. Fortunately, the scarcity mentality is like a person's circadian rhythm, as a person's mental rhythm (such as IQ, executive fluctuations) no one can avoid, so in fact you may not be as stupid as others and have no perseverance (no longer ashamed of your own inability to resist temptation), just because you are stuck in a scarcity dilemma and can't extricate yourself. Scarcity is as natural as smiling when you're happy and losing your temper when you're angry, but when we realize that we're at the border of scarcity, maybe we can avoid a vicious cycle of scarcity. We can use external intervention to pull important things into the "tube" field of vision, so that "negligence" equals "acquiescence" (instead of falling into shame and self-blame), stay vigilant, find the right time to act with relevant actions to save and use bandwidth, act when bandwidth is abundant, start from abundance, and respond to emergencies with spare time.

To conclude with the last paragraph of the book, "Tracing back the thread of scarcity, we see abundance: depression, caused by our behavior in the boom phase; The last-minute struggle was caused by our inaction in the previous weeks", and if you plan and manage your "bandwidth", the scarcity problem will be solved.

To conclude with a passage from a recent article, "When you can give up at any time and don't feel that persistence is a responsibility, you accept the fact that you are even a waste and everything in life becomes a reward." To accept scarcity, because scarcity is not scary, what is scary is the scarcity mentality.

I flipped through a white book on my white desk, and the content was scarcity! I benefited a lot from it.