What I learned from Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough by Michael Easter.
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Timestamps:
[00:00] We Should Focus on Bad Habits
[02:40] The Scarcity Loop
[06:19] How to Break the Scarcity Loop
[08:50] Scarcity Cues
[12:02] Addiction is not a Disease
[15:25] How to Combat Addiction
[18:15] Gamification & Scarcity Loops
[22:02] Food Cravings
[27:19] We’re All Hoarders
[30:29] Drowning in Information
[34:12] How to We Stop Craving More?
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