Buret McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

Everyone has some bad habits, and they nearly always involve doing something too much.

Eating too much, drinking too much, buying too much, looking at your phone too much.

Why do we have such a propensity for overdoing it?

My guest says it's all thanks to a scarcity loop that we're hardwired to follow.

Once you understand how this loop works, you can start taking action to resist the compulsive cravings that sabotage your life.

Michael Easter is the author of Scarcity Brain.

Fix your craving mindset and rewire your habits to thrive with enough.

To end the show, Michael impacts the three parts of the scarcity loop, and how they've been amplified in the modern day.

We talk about the slot machine lab that corporations use to hack your brain.

While your main problem may be that you're understimulated rather than overstimulated,

why addiction may be better thought of as a symptom rather than a disease,

how the quantification and gamification of life can negatively impact your experience of it,

and how ultimately the fix for resisting your bad habits is having something better to do than chase the cheap, unsatisfying hits of pleasure or culture so readily offers.

After the show's over, check out our show notes at awm.iaslashscarcitybrae.

Alright, Michael Easter. Welcome back to the show.

Alright, thanks for having me back. I appreciate it.

So we had you on last time to talk about your book, The Comfort Crisis.

That's episode number 708 for those who haven't listened to it. I highly recommend you go check it out.

You got a new book out called Scarcity Brain.

Fix your craving mindset and rewrite your habits to thrive with enough.

Now, I read a lot of books for what I do, my business.

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