Why Does Scarcity When You Have To Have So Much?

Two years ago during my junior year I was sitting in a cramped classroom filled with rowdy students when my English teacher assigned us a six page research paper. I would consider this research paper to be one of the hardest papers I had to write within three weeks. For most students three weeks is enough time to write a research paper unless you are like me who procrastinates often. Since my teacher gave us three weeks this gave me a great deal of time which brought a lot of distractions. My teacher was very helpful, she was always there to help us and she broke up the paper into smaller tasks with set due dates. Also the school librarian was always willing to provide information. My school had all the resources in order to complete the paper so there …show more content…
Unfortunately, words could not describe how challenging it was to do the assignment until I read Scarcity: Why having too little means so much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir. The book helped me understand the challenges I went through trying to complete the paper. I realized that while my school organization was never affected by scarcity, I on the other hand was affected negatively by it. The book Scarcity:Why having too little means so much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir proves that the school organization has a better plan to manage scarcity, whereas the lack of slack, giving into impulses and neglecting assignments can fall onto the student in a negative way. The authors of Scarcity:Why having too little means so much, claim that slack is due to the lack of a scarcity mindset when we have