Kyle Goodwin Scarcity

SCARCE HEALTH PROJECT As a requirement for graduation from my high school, I had to do an assignment. The assignment was a health project that was a month long, which you had to do an essay and a presentation with a power point. What you had to do was convince your class to change a law that is present now in todays seciaty. In doing this assignment, I experienced scarcity in many ways. The problem I was having was, I was scarce of time. At the the time, I was traveling a lot with my soccer team all over America for showcases and championships. This set me back so much because I was not doing the assignment when I was over their. I had a lot of time to finish this project, but because of everything else I had going on in my life, I really only had five days to complete a month long project. Thids scarcity led to do me doing worse on the assignment. This assignment is about convincing my class that the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen because you are considered an adult at eighteen years old. The teacher made us write a convincing essay to her. Then we had to present a power point convincing the class why it should be changed. Originally when I got the assignment I had a lot of slack. Slack is when you have a break or a good amount of time to finish something. Which I did not use to my advantage. My slack was that I had a month notice to do it, but I decided to do it with only five days left. When I started to do the health project I understood why I had a month to do it, it was not made for you to work on it only for five days. In scarcity they say “it is that we fail to leave slack for the future(pg.224).” This explains exactly what happens with me I did not leave slack for the future which made me scarce of time. Slack is not always a good thing to have because to much slack can make you forget about an assignment, this happen to me because I had a month to do mine, but totally forgot about it. Two other important concepts from scarcity are