Many high school students have a crazy schedule: school from 8am to 3pm, work from 4pm to 10pm, then having dinner and finishing homework for five different classes till early morning. This is the normal routine for most of us unless you go to school and have your parents provide everything for you. But for the ones that have to manage time and priorities ourselves, we all know there’s a limit to things that we are capable of. Managing time in high school is one of the most important lesson a student can learn in order for them to meet deadlines and prepare themselves for the professional environment. But the assignments given to us and their deadlines never include the factor that time is scarce and everyone has their own amount of time. In Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, a non-fiction written by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir, the authors describe scarcity and establish key concepts and its varied effects upon our lives. After arguing that productivity and our ability to handle scarcity are contextual and personal, they also directly relate it to the structure and organization of the tasks and assignments we encounter. Since time is scarce, concepts like neglect, slack, and incentives played a role throughout my life and the way the authors described these concepts were similar to how it impacted me on various assignments that I had to complete. One assignment that I had in high school was to prepare myself for the SATs. The SATs is a standardized test given to Junior level students and the outcome of the scores determines your success in college. Even though I scheduled to take my SAT during November, three months into the school year, I faced the challenge that neglecting this priority and tunneling into the present priorities wasn't going to pay off at the end. In Scarcity, Mullainathan and Shafir claim, “When we tunnel, we choose differently. The deadline creates its own narrow focus” (30).