You 2.0: Tunnel Vision

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Arts, Science, Performing Arts, Social Sciences

4.6 • 40.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

When you're hungry, it can be hard to think of anything other than food. When you're desperately poor, you may constantly worry about making ends meet. When you're lonely, you might obsess about making friends. This week, as part of our You 2.0 series, we bring you a favorite 2017 episode about the psychological phenomenon of scarcity. Researchers say this form of tunnel vision can affect our ability to see the big picture and cope with problems in our lives.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedantam.
0:04.1	Today we have a story that will change the way you think about many things.
0:08.7	Poverty, loneliness, time, even hunger.
0:13.8	It's a tale about the psychological phenomenon of scarcity.
0:18.9	It affects nearly everything in our lives and connects people who appear to have nothing in common.
0:24.5	The story of scarcity is a story of how not having enough of what you need can become the only thing that matters to you.
0:33.5	That I think is the basic scarcity instinct. We're hungry and then this thing starts going off in the head saying,
0:38.5	do you realize we're hungry? Have I mentioned we're hungry? We're hungry.
0:42.5	This week on Hidden Brain, think deeply. We continue our annual summer series, You2.0.
0:49.5	Authenticity is contagious.
0:52.5	I've been dragged into this all the way kicking and screaming.
0:55.5	Ideas and advice about how you can respond to life's chaos.
0:59.5	Let me do it, just check to my ear marks. Just check, just check to my phone real quick.
1:04.5	With wisdom.
1:08.5	This week, how we get in and out of the scarcity trap.
1:14.5	My name is Brandi Drew. I'm from Detroit, Michigan.
1:21.5	Brandi Drew has a story that may sound familiar to you. A story of poverty and debt.
1:27.5	It's the kind of story that may lead people to quick conclusions, so pay attention to your own.
1:33.5	Brandi is now 37. Six years ago, her life unravelled.
1:38.5	At the time, she ran the dining services department at a senior living facility.
1:43.5	She'd been with a company that ran it for more than a decade.
1:47.5	One day, she made a mistake.
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