Situation-Stimulates

• Get an overview of everything that happened in the week. 
• Identify positives. Look at the things that you wanted to accomplish and did. 
• Identify negatives. Look at the things that you wanted to accomplish and didn’t. 
• Tak...

We weigh negatives twice as heavily as positives. This is similar to loss aversion: We prefer avoiding losses than acquiring equivalent gains.

Loss aversion focuses narrowly on losses and gains, however, while subjective magnitude broadly considers positive and negative events.

Mental Filtering. You focus on something bad and filter out all the positives—or you focus on something positive and ignore all the negatives. For example, you get one low rating in a job evaluation and conclude you’re doing a l...