Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

What's an abundance mindset?

An abundance mindset is the belief that there is nothing truly scarce.

So we grew up as a human species in scarcity.

And our physiology and the way our brain is wired for scarcity.

And so in an abundance mindset, I'll give you two simple examples and go into more detail

here.

If I have an orange tree, I'm 5'5, I grab the oranges

from the lowest hanging branches, all of a sudden, orange trees are scarce again.

Until I invent a piece of technology called the ladder that gives me higher reach,

and now I've got access to oranges again. If you've got a pie and you've got, you know, family

of four coming over for dinner, but then all your neighbors hear about and they all come for dinner,

you have to slice the pie in a thinner and thinner slices. In an abundance mindset,

like bullshit, we're going to go bake more pies. Right. Right. So the realization is technology

is turning whatever used to be scarce

into abundance. Another great example. We used to go kill whales on the ocean to get whale oil

to light our nights. Then we ravaged mountains to get coal. Then we drilled kilometers

in the ocean ground to get oil. And now we're living

on a planet that has 8,000 times more energy from the sun than we consume as a species in a year.

8,000 times. 2020 is the first year that will have more electricity added to the grid from solar than any other form.

And so we're heading towards a squanderable abundance of energy, right?

Fusion is coming down the line.

...