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How to use the concept of scarcity and abundance in your life? How these concepts and the coordinate system can help a person live a more comfortable life. And maybe happy.

Suppose that there is a choice – to stay for an hour at work and get some money. Or return early to the family or friends and get a little more rest, love or fellowship.

You can look at how this task is being solved by workaholics or some employees in pursuit of a premium. And you can see how the hippies solved this problem.

Is it possible at least theoretically? Of course.

Can there be harm to a person if he does not experience a deficit? Can not. However, this is an idle question – some deficits return to life constantly – otherwise we would not eat or sleep.

Abundance is not comfort, not harmony. This is satisfaction, which is closer to happiness.

Heavy workout or work can not bring comfort or harmony – muscles ache, there is fatigue… but there is satisfaction.

All deficient states break harmony and do not bring pleasure. While the lack of a deficit, and even more so the state of abundance, increases the amount of satisfaction with life and the amount of happiness.

A person, lacking sleep and rest, can get sick, his working capacity will be reduced and he is unlikely to be happy about it.

Deficiency of love can lead to the emergence of neuroses and depression.

Thus, using the concepts of scarcity and abundance can help a person manage his life.

After all, it is these concepts that govern man from the outside.

Deficiency and abundance is used both in the marketing of goods, and in the manipulation of people by the state. But more on that later.

First, we’ll figure it out for ourselves. We will receive a tool to manage our lives and only then, on the basis of it, we will learn to resist manipulation from the outside.

In the process of life a person receives a lot of signals and landmarks. Often false.

As a result, a person begins to get confused and rush from one extreme to the other. Strive for false goals.

(It is important to understand that these goals may be false for one, but true for another.)

A person can not only be misled by someone, but he himself can be mistaken.

However, using the concepts of scarcity and abundance can greatly simplify decision making and the definition of both long-term and short-term benchmarks.

A banal example. If a person is tired, then he lacks, a shortage of rest and sleep. And all you need is to notice this and adjust your life to eliminate this deficit. Rest, sleep.

A similar rule applies to all other categories.

If a person suffers from a health deficit, i.е. he is banally sick, then he needs to direct his strength to recovery, and not to work.

Thus, the control is reduced to the simple construction of a graph and its monitoring in order to translate any scarce state into an abundant one.

And, of course, it must be remembered that the only criterion of scarcity or abundance in this case is a person’s own perception.

In this regard, it is useful to look at a category such as money. Those. poverty and wealth.

It is possible that you have met people with a much higher income, much more prosperity than you, but not feeling rich or even wealthy.

And at the same time, most likely, you have seen people who do not have much money, but who feel themselves well-off.

Why does this happen?

You can consider this with the example of telephones.

The spread of the cost of phones in stores reaches two orders of magnitude. Those. one phone can be 100 times more expensive than another.

But these are all phones. They are needed only to make a call.

And even if we start discussing additional functions, then phones that are completely identical in function may differ in price by 5—10 times.

However, there are people who are extremely important to have the most expensive phone of the latest model.

It will be naive to think that this category of people will ever feel that it has eliminated its “telephone” deficit and is on the right on the chart, in a zone of abundance.

This category is important brand, prestige. And they are in constant pursuit of the newest. This race will be endless and if it brings satisfaction, then only for a brief moment. Until a new model appears.

At the same time, having spent a significant part of their money on a new phone, a person will not actually move the “telephone” component of the chart to the right. But the monetary component will move to the left and may be in the deficit zone.

A person does this in order to shift the concept of “prestige” to the left. But is it possible? And is there a place for the prestige category on the chart?

As we have already said, the concept of deficiency and abundance is subjective. Those. they depend on the evaluation of their completeness and significance by the person himself. While the notion of “prestige” is a category of evaluation from the outside.

Prestigious car, prestigious clothes, prestigious work, prestigious phone – where does this adjective come from, relative to any thing or category?

Only from the outside. From advertising, talking to other people, rumors, the media, etc. Those. this is someone’s subjective opinion or manipulation, but not the opinion and sensation of the person himself.

Hence, there is no place for the notion of “prestige” neither on the graph, nor in the life of a particular person who wants to manage his life himself.

A locksmith enjoying his work is not concerned about whether she is prestigious. Because he likes him.

At the same time, if a person uses the concept of prestige when choosing a profession, he may find himself in a situation where work does not bring pleasure, despite the “prestige”.

Even the concept of money is not as objective as it seems. The cost of living in a big city is more expensive than in a small one. Those. in different countries, in different cities, people living in the same house and eating the same food, somewhere will spend on it 1000 dollars, and somewhere around 100.

Thus, with earnings of $ 500, in one case, he will feel a shortage of money, and in another – abundance.

If this is realized, it is quite possible that it is more reasonable for this person to live in a city where he will feel abundance. And not where it is “prestigious”.