What is scarcity?
- Scarcity is an attitude. A feeling. A world view.
- A view of things that they are limited either in time or quantity. That there is nothing you can do to change that.
- So you can hurry to get what is limited in time, scramble, because it feels that losing THAT is the end of the world.
- Or you can decide that you will never get it, and be depressed about it.
Scarcity is not a mind phenomenon, it is not a belief, it is not thinking. Scarcity comes from a world view.
Scarcity is sometimes real. There is an actual scarcity of resources, from time to time. But Scarcity as an attitude is what keeps you uncreative, and a victim.
Scarcity fills your whole view and renders you immobile, and stupid.
When you can tear your attention away from what you think is a threat, then you can stop being afraid, you can stop scrambling, and can get creativ