The average American today spends 12 to 13 hours a day on digital media, which has drastically changed how we spend our attention. While some of it is necessary and informative, it has become our lives. In this book, the author encourages making conscious choices about how we spend our time on apps like TikTok, rather than mindlessly falling into the scarcity loop. Often, we reflexively reach for our phones when faced with discomfort, but it's important to be intentional.
Slot machines, social media, and potato chips: we humans seem to find a lot of things hard to consume in moderation. Why does "enough" seem so much harder to say than "more?" Listen as Michael Easter discusses these questions and his book, The Scarcity Brain, with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. Easter shares ways that our awareness of how our brain works can help us reclaim balance--in our diets, our money, our emotions, and how we spend our time.