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Published Jul 4, 2019

220: The Right Way to Cultivate Abundance | Deep Dive

Jordan Harbinger and Gabriel Mizrahi delve into the abundance mindset, revealing our brain's scarcity wiring and offering strategies to overcome it through small, consistent acts of service that foster genuine generosity and meaningful connections.
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  • Abundance Mindset

    and explore the concept of an abundance mindset, emphasizing that it's not about believing the universe will provide everything but rather about not being stingy. Jordan shares his personal struggle with generosity, especially as an only child, and how societal pressures often make people feel they need to hoard resources. Gabriel explains that the human brain is wired to focus on scarcity for survival, making it challenging to adopt an abundance mindset.

    Our natural impulse is to obsess about what we don't have because knowing what we don't have probably aided our survival more than knowing what we do have and celebrating that.

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    Jordan also discusses how people, regardless of their income, often feel they can't afford to be generous, highlighting that it's a mindset issue rather than a financial one 1 2.

       

    Wired for Scarcity

    The discussion shifts to how humans are wired for scarcity, a survival mechanism that makes us focus on what we lack. Gabriel points out that this scarcity mindset creates a catch-22, where people feel they need to have abundance before they can be generous, but they can't feel abundant without practicing generosity. Jordan adds that societal comparisons and visible assets of others exacerbate this feeling of lack, making it difficult to break free from the scarcity mindset.

    The abundance mindset is not hardcoded into the human DNA and to the human mind. Scarcity, the lack, that's hard.

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    They also discuss how understanding this wiring can help people overcome their competitive instincts and develop more meaningful connections 3 4.

       

    Cultivating Abundance

    Gabriel and Jordan offer practical steps for cultivating an abundance mindset, starting with small acts of generosity. Gabriel suggests that these small acts can gradually build the muscle of abundance, making it easier to be generous over time. Jordan emphasizes the importance of consistency, even setting reminders to check in on loved ones as a way to practice generosity.

    Cultivating abundance begins with committing to a handful of really, really small acts of generosity in your everyday life.

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    They also highlight that even those with self-interested motives can benefit from an abundance mindset, as it helps build strong networks and alliances 5 6.

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