About the author: MICHAEL EASTER is the author of The Comfort Crisis and a professor at UNLV. He writes and speaks on how humans can leverage modern science and evolutionary wisdom to perform better and live healthier and more fulfilling lives.
For me, this book’s main theme can be depicted by this quote from the author.
>Scarcity is the mother of movement, invention, ideas, and breakingnew ground on the map and in the mind. – Easter, M. (2023). Scarcity Brain. Rodale Books
There are two fun data in this book!
1. Risky activities are engrossing.
>Eating forbidden fruit is far more exciting than unforbidden fruit. Another old study from the U.S. Department of Justice found that marijuana use seemed to fall in some states that decriminalized the drug. – Easter, M. (2023). Scarcity Brain. Rodale Books
2. Money doesn’t buy happiness as much as you think so.
>Americans didn’t get any happier from 1975 to 1999, even though they became 43 percent wealthier based on per capita GDP. – Easter, M. (2023). Scarcity Brain. Rodale Books
There is one interesting statement in this book!
1. Being alone isn’t always bad. You don’t need to feel lonely. Solitude makes you extraordinary!
>Isaac Newton, quarantined and alone from a plague outbreak in 1665, had his most productive years, revolutionizing our understanding of math and gravity. Gregor Mendel, a friar, discovered the beginnings of genetics while studying plants in solitude. Charles Darwin got to the bottom of his ideas on evolution after exiling himself at home alone after his five-yearjourney on the HMS Beagle. Nikola Tesla, arguably the greatest inventorof all time, said, “The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude….Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences” – Easter, M. (2023). Scarcity Brain. Rodale Books
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