Food security

Knowing that you can wake up every morning and have something to eat is very powerful, knowing that if you ever feel hungry at any moment, you can just reach into your pockets and dig up some change then get what you want does so much for your mental state to the point where it can either enhance your productivity or disrupt it. Imagine this instead like the internet, these days there is little I can do in terms of my software projects without internet, even just distraction wise, the internet is very important because thats where all the content is found. You can look at it the same way with food security, there isn’t much you’ll be able to do if you are worried about what you are going to eat that day especially when your energy is slowly drying out.

Food takes eminence

No matter who you are or what you want to do, survival takes precedence over everything else and even if you want to push yourself to work, you’ll have a hard time when your survival instincts kick in. Food security enhances our productivity and puts us in a position where we are able to work hard. That’s why everybody is hard at work even in some terrible jobs, they can’t afford to think big or have better aspirations because they first have to ensure their food security, once this is assured now they can think about expanding their ideas.

A person who can’t guarantee 3 square meals a day wouldn’t be able to afford creative ideas because they are always on survival mode, worried about what the next day is going to be like. Even when they want to, their brain and stomach won’t allow them. I’ve always wondered why people would do some of the craziest kinds of jobs, walking under the sun all day, selling some basic stuff most people won’t want or doing things which really didn’t feel smart to me but when you think about it, they can’t afford to be smart because; first maybe they didn’t go that far in school and secondly they are stuck in survival mode and can only do what they know best because thats what feels the most natural to them.

Breathing room to be smart

The only way you can help such persons is by providing the food security and giving them guidance on to what to do, if you stay expecting them to change or get smarter thats probably never going to happen but by first taking away one thing to worry about (which is the most important) now you give them the breathing room to think and get smarter. People are forced sometimes to make the decisions they make because they cant afford to do otherwise, their energy is slowly draining out, their brain is on survival mode and they have to figure out a solution before they run out of energy.

Conclusion

This is why the first thing to make a person smarter is giving them food security, all our children who are considered smart today have always had that, for those who didn’t have that they might be considered resilient but there is a question mark on how smart they can be.

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