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Negativity bias

Negativity bias

When facing a situation with an equal intensity, things of a more negative nature have a greater effect on one's psychological state and processes than neutral or positive things.

It means that positive outcome will generally have less of an impact on a person's behavior and cognition than something equally emotional but negative.

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Brain Arhitecture

Our brain architecture is made out of two big components:

  • Brainsteam and Limbic System. This system is all about learning by repetition and association.
  • Cerebral Cortex is the outer layer of neural tissue of the cerebrum of the...

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Brainsteam

Repetition

  • Our brain will get used to our main activities and will expect a certain feeling from it

Association

  • Our brain will look forward to events that used to make us happy ( because those types of events are releasing dopam...

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William shakespeare

”There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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Just do you

It doesn't have to be perfect and it doesn't have to be a 10, as long as you give your best and you are trying to achive the best version of yourself, it's golden.

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Relaxing the Brain

A high level of dopamine ( main chemical of pleasure ) is relaxing the brain, but this type of hormone is being released in actions that may not actually be good for us ( smoking, bienge eating, etc ).

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Reward System

Reward System

Get your brain used to small and frequently appreciation/rewards during a process.

Since you are giving your brain a dose of dopamine every time you reward it, he will look forward to this action which will eventually lead to a lot of benefits for the long term: 

  • build a lot...

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How to change your habbits

If you want to do something that you currently can't:

  1. Change it's circumstances ( surroundings, context )
  2. Surround yourself with people that are already doing it. By doing it, not only you have a lot of mentors and people to learn from, but you will get used to those types of a...

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Negativity Bias

Is the tendency to change our thought processes and behaviors more because of negative things than we do because of neutral or positive things.

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The negativity bias

The negativity bias

The negativity bias happens when a person dwells on a negative event for a long period of time.

We tend to register negative stimuli every time we go through displeasing situations. This is because negative events have a bigger impact than those of positive ones on...

Negativity Bias

Negativity Bias

Though issue arises when the mind only sees the negative. 

The term for this is called Negativity Bias, Negative experiences have a greater effect on us than positives experiences. This means we give more importance to the negative. 

Meaning we have a tendency to high...

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