The saying, “You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone,” highlights a sentiment that can profoundly impact relationship dynamics. You may have noticed that we’re often more drawn to someone who ...

What Is a Scarcity Mindset? A scarcity mindset is a way of thinking that focuses on something you don’t have enough of. This scarce resource is often money or time, but it also could be other things ...

When I was teaching, I sometimes asked my students: Are the good things in life scarce? Based on those conversations, I can report that people tended to say they are. As the students saw it, there are ...

Prepare to update your theory of change. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, a new book by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir, behavioral scientists at Harvard and Princeton respectively ...

Perception plays a huge role in how we experience the world around us. In other words, through the lens of scarcity, we might think that there’s never enough for everyone, there’s no opportunity, and ...