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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

268: Where Abundance Comes From by David Cain of Raptitude.com

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2016

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

David Cain of Raptitude is a writer and entrepreneur living in Winnipeg, Canada. On a particular boring day at his office job in 2009, he started Raptitude. His interest has always been human society and the internal human experience, and Raptitude became his megaphone for his thoughts about those things. It found an audience rather quickly and it’s been central to his life ever since. In 2013, he left his day job to write full time. Episode 268: Where Abundance Comes From by David Cain of Raptitude.com (Generosity & Gratitude). The original post is located here: http://www.raptitude.com/2016/08/abundance-scarcity Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We think capability handling grip and safety should always be full-time jobs.

0:15.6

That's why every SUV we make has permanent four-wheel drive, a standard.

0:24.1

Subaru. All-wheel drive. All the time.

0:54.1

This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 268, where abundance comes from by David Kane of Raptitude.com.

1:24.1

Where abundance comes from by David Kane of Raptitude.com.

1:54.3

That's what he is saying over the inches of an amazing spot in haul today!

2:14.4

All-wheel drive. All-wheel drive in together this week's

2:19.2

lives. Often whole weeks or months or even years take the general tone of one or the other.

2:24.9

But we also swing back and forth between them throughout each day. You look at the clock,

2:29.5

expecting it to be six something and at 748, a feeling of scarcity descends immediately.

2:35.3

You remember this coming Monday is a holiday, a wish of abundance. You arrive at the show and

2:40.8

there's a huge lineup for tickets. You catch a news report about a sluggish economy.

2:45.0

Your girlfriend says she doesn't want fries but will just have some of yours.

2:49.0

Scarcity. Your boss tells you a deadline has been pushed back. Netflix adds a whole second season

2:54.6

of Happy Valley. You've done every bit of laundry in the house and it's all clean and folded.

2:59.1

Abundance. Abundance is the feeling of all I need right now and more. It is the feeling that you can

3:05.0

rely on your future or your personal world to provide for you. Scarcity is a sense that it's

3:10.5

uncertain that what you need will be available. It activates the parts of the brain that deal with

3:14.7

competition, urgency and despair. Put simply, abundance feels great and scarcity feels bad.

3:22.1

If we could live our whole lives feeling abundance, we would. You might even say that it's the

3:26.4

primary feeling we seek in life because it represents the things we want most fundamentally.

3:31.5

Security, gratification and freedom. What's interesting is that our current feeling doesn't

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