Your Brain Is Wired for Bad News. Don't Let It Run You. 🧠📺 #negativitybias #mindset #peace

Added: 2026-05-21

[00:00:00]we have what's called a negativity bias, that we pay attention to threats much more than opportunities. So, um and why is that happen? Because evolutionarily, something good is nice, but something bad can kill you. So, you're much more likely to pay attention what's that rustling in the in the bush that could be a tiger that's about to eat me than oh, there's a couple berries over there. So, you're much more tuned to threats. So, in modern society, the first rule of journalism is if it bleeds, it leads.

[00:00:28]So, I'm going to worry about some war that's 6,000 mi away that's got nothing to do with me. I'm going to see what's happening in the night in the news that somebody got killed or some, you know, statistical flu to you know, if there's a the news will report about a plane crash, but they won't tell you about all the planes that landed safely every day.

[00:00:44]Because it's not interesting to us because we we are constantly on alert for possible threats, things that we have to do something about.

[00:00:52]And we should be aware of that because that's another belief.

[00:00:56]Now, there's nothing necessarily wrong with it unless it's causing you suffering. And today, many people, I certainly, before I I started this line of research was not at peace. I was suffering because of all the things that are happening in the world.

[00:01:09]And that wasn't good for me.

[00:01:12]I mean, I I felt like I had this responsibility to constantly have an opinion about everything all the time.

[00:01:17]And so, I needed to reassess that about how my beliefs were causing this kind of suffering.