Your brain defaults to mapping obstacles, not possibilities. It's wired to list reasons things will fail. The shift is simple: acknowledge that bias, thank it, then deliberately choose to focus on what could work instead.
Because our brains have a negativity bias. And the first thing, as soon as you start to think about doing something else or making a change, your brain is going to come up with a really well-articulated list of reasons why you shouldn't do it, why it's not going to work, why it's absolutely the wrong thing. So as soon as you start to even consider new possibilities, just know that your brain is going to say, hey, here's a map of all the obstacles. And so This is where you have to courageously and very intentionally shift your mental map. You have to say, thank you for the map of obstacles. I'm going to take out a map of possibilities.
Reducing Regrettable Attrition in Organizations by Fixing the System, Not the People Reducing Regret
