The Lost ARC / Unit 2 ARC 027 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Tunneling
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The idea
In Scarcity, Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir describe tunneling: scarcity narrows attention to the most immediate demand at the expense of everything else.
In practice
A person who can think only about this week's deadline and cannot picture the next six months.
Where people slip
The book's reading: people under scarcity do not lack intelligence or motivation. They lack bandwidth, which circumstance consumes, not character.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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