Ashish KothariMake flourishing your competitive edge

How to Overcome Negativity Bias #shorts

29 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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A short motivational tip by a single speaker encouraging viewers to make happiness their competitive edge by consciously noticing positive aspects of life. The speaker explains human negativity bias — that people recall criticisms more than compliments — and recommends pausing when negative thoughts arise and deliberately recalling others’ positive actions to avoid overreacting.

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For this week's tip on making happiness your competitive edge, I want to invite you to cultivate your ability to notice the good Our life, if you take a moment and reflect, is filled with majority of the things that are good, going well, and places where we are so much better than so many others. And yet our brain, which has a negativity bias, keeps holding on to those little things that don't go well. Think about this. If somebody gave you 10 compliments and one thing that was a criticism or an opportunity for growth for you, which ones would you keep playing back in your mind? It's not the compliments, it's that one thing. And so by cultivating consciously one an awareness to say when are we going into the negative? And in that moment pausing and reminding ourselves of even for that instance, let's say if somebody messed up and made a mistake, what are all the times that they've come through for us? What are all the good things that they have done so that we can remind ourselves and not get too lost and not get into a huge emotional tsunami for something that didn't go well?