
You 2.0: Tunnel Vision
Hidden Brain
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The Same Person When They're Poor Should Have Different Cognitive Capacity Than When They Are Rich
The same person when they're poor should have very different cognitive capacity than when they're rich. We don't have the kind of money to go around making poor people rich, but a sugar cane farmers actually create a natural experiment for us. San de leneldar tested the farmers on their long term thinking when they had no money and when they had plenty of money. The results were stunning. So we found the post harvests, when they're well off, they have much more impose control. It's all they can think about. Scarcity captures the mind, like it did with those starving men in minnesota. In fact, scarcity can actually lower how you perform on an
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