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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 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.




I've heard the same thing, but do you have a reference for this?


LMGTFY:

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.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/29/poverty-menta...




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