"Scarcity" Speed Reading Notes

book information

Title: Scarcity: How We Got Too Poverty and
Busy

overview

The scarcity of resources is not terrible, but the scarcity mentality

(The first part is the scarcity mentality is the root of all scarcity)

The "gain" of concentration and the "loss" of peeping

1. Scarcity of resources in exchange for focus and rewards
2. Focus on dividends
3. Glimpse
4. Neglect caused by spying
5. Peek into the burden

Bandwidth Burden Lowers Human IQ

1. "Noise" interfering with our thoughts
2. Bandwidth Burden 1 - Cognitive Capabilities
3. Bandwidth Burden 2 - Executive Control
4. Indian farmers before and after harvest
5. other forms of scarcity
6. scarcity, quite different from stress and worry
7. Scarcity makes people stupid and more impulsive

(Part II: How Poverty and Busyness Narrow "Bandwidth")

Boxing, idleness, and trade-off thinking

1. trade-off thinking
2. spare time
3. Poor bees and rich mud bees
4. Purchasing Behavior in Leisure Mindset
5. Make a mistake when you have no spare time, the consequences are serious
6. The essence of scarcity is that there is no spare time

What behavioral economics tells us

1. $50 is worth differently to rich and poor
2. relativity of perception
3. The real value of $1
4. Consciousness
5. opportunity cost

Borrowing and Shortsightedness

1. Glimpse and Borrow
2. Inspiration from "Family Questions and Answers"
3. ignore the future
4. Inability to plan

scarcity trap

1. unstoppable juggling
2. get away
3. root of the problem
4. Leisure, a weapon for emergencies
5. poverty begins with abundance
6. Loneliness is social scarcity
7. Changing Your Mindset, Your Only Hope to Escape the Trap of Scarcity

why the poor are poor

1. The "last mile" problem
2. Incompetence can lead to poverty and poverty can lead to incompetence
3. Brain freedom can become a qualified parent
4. The poor lack money and bandwidth
5. Bandwidth burden leads to mental decline

(Part 3 How to go from scarcity to abundance)

How to lift the poor out of poverty

1. Tolerating the Misbehavior of the Poor
2. Let the "alert" come earlier
3. A way to save bandwidth is a good way
4. Bandwidth can be built
5. Poverty alleviation is a long-term project

How to Address Time Scarcity in Your Organization

1. The important role of leisure
2. Free time, neither too much nor too little
3. 4.45x! Lessons from the Mars Rover
4. Use your spare time to fight fire traps
5. Henry Ford's Time Management Wisdom
6. The Enlightenment of "Safflower" Japanese Cuisine
7. "Chervis" table management experience

How to deal with scarcity in everyday life

1. Bring important things into the view of "guanzi"
   2. Make "negligence" equal to "acquiescence"
2. stay alert
3. Find the right time to act
4. Save bandwidth
5. Act when bandwidth is plentiful
6. Convenience for those with insufficient bandwidth
7. start with abundance
8. Respond to emergencies with spare time

Plan and manage "bandwidth" well, and the scarcity problem will be solved