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"Nothing focuses the mind on finding revenues like being broke and needing to make the rent." Research shows that the cognitive load associated with being brok
by ChristianMarks 13y ago
"Nothing focuses the mind on finding revenues like being broke and needing to make the rent."
Research shows that the cognitive load associated with being broke amounts to a loss of one standard deviation in IQ. The mind is focused all right: only on making the rent and on nothing else, and under no circumstances on anything like starting a business.
- mooreds 13y agoI've heard the same thing, but do you have a reference for this?
- ChristianMarks 13y agoLMGTFY: Anandi Mani1, Sendhil Mullainathan2, Eldar Shafir3, Jiaying Zhao4. Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function. Science 30 August 2013: Vol. 341 no. 6149 pp. 976-980 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/976 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/976 http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/29/poverty-mental-capacity-complex-tasks http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/29/poverty-menta...