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

by Michael Easter

“After my first mission on the station, I would have said that you can’t see the stars very well from the space station, because we have too many lights on inside,” he said, with the camera still pointed toward Earth. “But then I started coming up here a half hour before everyone else would wake up. And I’d shut off the lights and just sit with my eyes open and sort of meditate, not trying to think about much, but rather just trying to soak it in. It was challenging at first, but ultimately amazing. My eyes would adjust. Space actually isn’t the inky black that I described to people after my first mission. It seemed to me that the stars we normally see as individual stars weren’t really that way. I could start picking up the faint stars super far away. There were so many of them that it seemed more like shades of gray and white and black. It was more of a texture, a net. And that changed how I think about perception, the limits of human knowledge, and how we have so much more to explore.”