Personal Development with Gray Miller
I’ve written a bit in the past about how becoming aware of Scarcity Mentality has changed the way I live my life. The reason why, in a nutshell, is this: “Scarcity is not just a physical constraint. It is also a mindset. When scarcity captures our attention, it changes how we think—whether it is at …
It’s kind of scary how many of my posts begin with this phrase… I have a friend, who… But I do have a lot of friends, and I enjoy both interacting with them and observing them as they deal with the various challenges of life. It’s that old idea that everybody can either show you …
“Why don’t you like grocery stores?” she asked. “I think it’s a scarcity thing. Too many memories of being here with the girls without enough of…anything.” It’s enough to make me uncomfortable just writing about those days, trying to stretch too little money into just enough food to taste almost yummy enough that my daughters …
“I realized during meditation this morning that a huge part of my stress lied in a perceived scarcity of time. I am so concerned with ‘not wasting time’ – with ‘living up to my potential’ – that any moment that is not propelling me towards some goal is felt to be a waste, a luxury, …
“My dad took away my first paycheck,” she said. “He deposited it into an account he created for me, and then gave me this.” She held up a small wooden frame. Inside was a faded dollar bill. “This is literally the first dollar I ever had.” “Huh,” I said, and mentally added another mark to …
There's another key concept from the Scarcity book I'm listening to that is the second “game changer” in terms of how I look at the overall concept of meeting needs. It's the idea of slack. The first thing to realize is that this is nothing to do with the term “slacker”; instead, think about having …
Wow. When I decided, a few weeks ago, that I needed to know more about the general concept of scarcity, I didn’t know where to start. But Scarcity: Why Having So Little Can Mean So Much seemed like a pretty good place. Written by Ivy-League researchers, it promised a broad scope: Drawing on cutting-edge research …
File this under “unexpected insights through journaling.” Except it wasn’t an insight about my life path or anything like that. Instead, it was a phrase. I was writing about being rushed and missing out on an opportunity to spend some time with a friend. I wrote, “I wasn’t able to take advantage of…” and stopped. Suddenly …
In his groundbreaking work on the psychological implications of poverty, Sendhil Mullainathan found evidence that many lawmakers and social critics were mixing up cause and effect. Namely, it wasn’t necessarily that people were poor because of bad decisions or a lack of intelligence. No, instead he showed that even the idea of poverty could lower a person’s ability …
“It’s ok…” “…if you don’t want to eat Indian food with me, sweetie. There are plenty of folks who will.” How do you interpret that statement? There seems to be two ways people will parse out meaning: Emotional Blackmail: This is a coercive and guilt-inducing statement, basically meant to force the partner who doesn’t like …