How to Overcome Your Brain’s Negativity Bias
Why the negative sticks and how to retain the positive instead
You need a lot of positive to balance out the negative. It’s a fact.
Imagine you went on a beautiful Mediterranean cruise for two weeks. You bathed in the Greek sunset, ate the heavenly tasty Italian food, danced on the Spanish beaches, drank yourself to sleep with Portuguese wine.
In a misfortune, sometime during this trip, your phone gets stolen, or you get sick for a couple of days.
What do you think you’ll remember most from this trip once you’re back home? The sunset, food, music, and wine? Or the unfortunate accident?
Most people will remember getting sick or having their belongings stolen because negative experiences affect them much more than positive ones. This is known as “negativity bias”.
Even when we are presented with occurrences of equal intensity, things of a negative nature will stick with us longer and will affect our psychology, behavior, and cognition to a greater extent.
5 facts about your brain’s ‘Negativity Bias’
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