145. Do You Have a Scarcity Mindset or an Abundance Mindset?

No Stupid Questions

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2023-05-07

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Are highly effective people quicker to share credit? What does poverty do to your brain? And how did Stephen's mother teach him about opportunity costs? Plus: an announcement about the future of the show.
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  • Hey, it's not necessarily a zero sum game.

  • It can be win, win.

  • And then someone came up with win, win, win.

  • At which point I started saying, okay, just how much winning can we all stand?

  • I'm Angela Duckworth.

  • I'm Stephen Dubner, and you're listening to.

  • No stupid questions today on the show.

  • Do you have a scarcity mindset or an abundance mindset?

  • There's a lot to untangle here, Angela.

  • A listener named Matthew writes in to say, I remember reading about the terms scarcity mindset versus abundance mindset.

  • It seems like an interesting way of framing how people react differently.

  • However, it looks like those terms do not originate out of psychology research.

  • Has any work been done to verify these concepts?

  • So, Angela, let's start with where these terms did originate.

  • Yeah, let's talk about what I know first, but then you can tell me that you know something better and different.

  • I think of scarcity, and I immediately think of Sendal Mulanathan and Eldar Shafir.

  • These are two eminent, I guess you would call them, behavioral economists.

  • Do you think that's the right label for Sandel and Eldar?

  • I mean, if we're talking about what their PhDs are in.

  • I think Eldar is an economist, and I think Sendel is not.