About the Book: Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits
to Thrive with Enough
Are we hardwired to crave more? From food and stuff to information and
influence, why cant we ever get enough?
Michael Easter, author of The Comfort Crisis and one of the worlds leading
experts on behavior change, shows that the problem isnt you. The problem is the
scarcity loop, left over from our ancient ancestors, who had to constantly seek
and consume to survive. For the scarcity loop to work, you need three things:
opportunity, unpredictable rewards and quick repeatability.
New technology and institutions - from dating and entertainment apps