Our tendency to find a clear, simple reason for why something bad has happened.
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The more one seeks to rise into height and light, the more vigorously do ones roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep — into evil.
“Forming your worldview by relying on the media would be like forming your view about me by looking only at a picture of my foot.” ― Hans Rosling
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The blame instinct describes our tendency to find a clear, simple reason for why something bad has happened.
The negativity instinct describes our tendency to notice the bad more than the good.
So when you hear about something terrible, calm yourself by asking, If there had been an equally large positive improvement, would I have heard about that?
Our tendency to notice the bad more than the good (e.g. believing that things are getting worse when things are actually getting better).
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