This is hidden brain.
I'm Shankar Vedantam.
Today we have a story that will change the way you think about many things.
Poverty, loneliness, time, even hunger.
It's a tale about the psychological phenomenon of scarcity.
It affects nearly everything in our lives and connects people who appear to have nothing in common.
The story of scarcity is a story of how not having enough of what you need can become the only thing that matters to you.
That, I think, is the basic scarcity instinct.
We're hungry.
And then this thing starts going off in the head, saying, do you realize we're hungry?
Have I mentioned we're hungry?
We're hungry.
This week on hidden brain.
Think deeply.
We continue our annual summer series U 2.0.
Authenticity is contagious.
I have been dragged into this all.
The way, kicking and screaming.
Ideas and advice about how you can respond to life.
Let's do a.