{"id":2771,"date":"2022-11-04T09:39:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T16:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2022-11-04T09:39:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T16:39:25","slug":"scarcity-as-a-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scarcity-as-a-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarcity as a fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;People who see the glass as &#8216;half-empty&#8217; [are] wedded to a fiction, for &#8217;emptiness&#8217; and &#8216;lack&#8217; [are] abstractions of the mind, whereas &#8216;half-full&#8217; is a measure of the physical reality under discussion. The so-called optimist, then, is the only one attending to real things, the only one describing a substance that is actually in the glass.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">-Zander &amp; Zander,\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Art-Possibility-Transforming-Professional-Personal\/dp\/0142001104\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2KX3PUCZ0OG0M\">The Art of Possibility<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(p.109)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;People who see the glass as &#8216;half-empty&#8217; [are] wedded to a fiction, for &#8217;emptiness&#8217; and &#8216;lack&#8217; [are] abstractions of the mind, whereas &#8216;half-full&#8217; is a measure of the physical reality under discussion. The so-called optimist, then, is the only one attending to real things, the only one describing a substance that is actually in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/scarcity-as-a-fiction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scarcity as a fiction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2773,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions\/2773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}