Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough

by Michael Easter

Then higher-order thinking kicked in. Carrying the Glock, I realized, assumes that I would be able to draw, fire, and place a 10 mm bullet in the eight-inch-wide forehead of a grizzly that was bearing down on me like a Formula 1 car. And this would all need to happen as I was shrieking and emptying my bladder and bowels while also regretting that I stopped going to church. This seemed like quite the technical ask.

“It’s easy to make delicious food if you give up on its nutrition,” he explained. “The same happens with truth: it’s easy to make seductively clear ideas if you don’t care about truth and nuance.”

After analyzing thousands of years of mythology across cultures, Joseph Campbell explained the story like this: The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.