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

by Michael Easter

What was an unexpected pleasure yesterday is what we feel entitled to today, and what won’t be enough tomorrow.”

Addiction is chronically seeking a reward despite negative consequences.

We call these problems of the heart and veins cardiovascular disease. And cardiovascular disease is—by far—the thing most likely to kill me, you, and everyone we know. It now kills more people globally than our eight other top causes of death combined.

About 30 percent of all heart attack patients today are between thirty-five and fifty-four years old. Now 40 percent of all people who die before turning seventy die of cardiovascular disease. Exactly 44.7 percent of American women above age twenty have some grade of cardiovascular disease. In the United States at the height of the pandemic, the malady killed 250 percent more people than did COVID-19.

Can't get over the 44.7% ...

As the Las Vegas Strip came into sight through my car’s windshield, I remembered the words that unnamed monk wrote in the nineteenth century. “You risk so much by hesitating to fling yourself into the abyss.”