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Mindsets

On Abundance and Scarcity

Nitzan Hermon
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Scarcity is the false belief that the world is limited by one's imagination. Abundance is realizing that what one can imagine can become reality.

In both cases, the bottleneck is the freedom of imagination and the perceived optionality it brings. Perceived because the world is changing too fast to make a fixed set of options useful.

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