The Fascinating Brain Science Behind Keeping "Just in Case" & Extra Items

The Minimal Mom

Dawn Madsen

Self-improvement, Education:how To, Education, How To

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Why do so many of us struggle with moderation and pursue the unpredictable? Why do we constantly crave more, when we have enough? In today’s episode, Dawn is joined by Michael Easter, a New York Times Bestselling author, journalist, and professor who wrote the books The Comfort Crisis and Scarcity Brain. Together, they discuss how our society's pursuit of ease has drastically changed the way in which we think and live - and tactics of how to not fall into the scarcity mindset trap! ABOUT MICHAEL EASTER: Michael's work explores how we can leverage modern science and evolutionary wisdom to perform better and live healthier and more meaningful lives. His ideas have been adopted by NASA, MLB teams, NCAA D1 athletic programs, US Special Forces units, Fortune-500 companies, top tier universities, and millions of people worldwide.MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Scarcity Brain: https://amzn.to/42xvJO2 Comfort Crisis: https://amzn.to/49qZqT6 Newsletter Signup: https://www.twopct.com/ Clearspace app: https://www.getclearspace.com/ IN THIS EPISODE: -How pursuing ease has changed our society -Scarcity brain -Why are we bad at moderation -Our focus on unpredictability -The relationship between scarcity and creativity-When to introduce social media to our kids -Gratitude journals are probably not the answer! Welcome to The Official Minimal Mom Podcast. Thank you so much for listening and could I ask a favor? Would you mind following? It helps podcast apps recommend this podcast to more friends. Thank you! Dawn

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0:00.0	I get to the bottom of like, okay, how does a slot machine work?
0:02.7	And it works on this three part system that I call the scarcity loop.
0:05.8	So it's got three parts.
0:06.6	It's got opportunity.
0:07.7	It's got unpredictable rewards.
0:09.0	And three, it has quick repeatability.
0:10.6	So if you think about social media, it falls into that system.
0:12.7	It's like if you post, you have an opportunity to get status, right, through likes and
0:18.0	comments. status, right? Through likes and comments, but you don't know how many likes you're going to get. You don't know how many comments you're going to get. You don't know if they're going to be good
0:22.9	comments. You don't know if they're going to be bad. Like, you don't know what's going to happen.
0:25.9	Yeah. You could go viral or someone could tell you you're ugly. But if you look at gambling,
0:32.3	like that industry is so heavily regulated. With social media, there's none of that. Welcome to the Minimal Mom podcast.
0:39.9	Don reaches a million women each month with practical tips to simplify your home.
0:44.9	Today, Dawn is joined by Michael Easter, a New York Times best-selling author,
0:49.6	journalist and professor who wrote the books The Comfort Crisis and Scarcity Brain.
0:55.0	His work explores how we can leverage modern science and evolutionary wisdom
0:59.1	to perform better and live healthier and more meaningful lives.
1:03.5	His ideas have been adopted by NASA, MLB teams, NCAAD1 athletic programs,
1:09.6	U.S. Special Force Units, Fortune 500 companies, and millions of people
1:14.0	worldwide. All right. Well, Michael, you are the author of Scarcity Brain and the Comfort Crisis. I have
1:20.4	talked at length about comfort crisis because what's so ironic to me is that as human beings, we have, we have won
1:30.1	at the game of life.
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