Negative
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Now it turns out that even if you do choose to participate when there are more choices present, even then, it has
negative
consequences.
Well, over the past decade, we have observed three main
negative
consequences to offering people more and more choices.
in fact it's
negative.
And very quickly, my brain starts to think that's the accurate ratio of
negative
to positive in the world.
You've outlined all the
negative
things that can happen, but not talked about the positive."
If you can raise somebody's level of positivity in the present, then their brain experiences what we now call a happiness advantage, which is your brain at positive performs significantly better than at negative, neutral or stressed.
Your brain at positive is 31% more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed.
Doctors are 19 percent faster, more accurate at coming up with the correct diagnosis when positive instead of negative, neutral or stressed.
And at the end of that, their brain starts to retain a pattern of scanning the world not for the negative, but for the positive first.
Now this doesn’t mean that I ignore the
negative
aspects of these obstacles.
The point is that the news media preferentially feeds us
negative
stories because that's what our minds pay attention to.
So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the
negative
news.
So given all of our digital devices that are bringing all the
negative
news to us seven days a week, 24 hours a day, it's no wonder that we're pessimistic.
And some of us are born with temperaments that are positive, some are
negative.
And so the job losses that came with the Internet and all that content theft, have therefore left us with
negative
employment in our content industries.
And all things being equal, older people direct their cognitive resources, like attention and memory, to positive information more than
negative.
If we show older, middle-aged, younger people images, like the ones you see on the screen, and we later ask them to recall all the images that they can, older people, but not younger people, remember more positive images than
negative
images.
We've said, could it be that positive emotions are simply easier to process than
negative
emotions, and so you switch to the positive emotions?
Maybe our neural centers in our brain are degraded such that we're unable to process
negative
emotions anymore.
And under conditions where it really matters, older people do process the
negative
information just as well as the positive information.
And sad,
negative
feelings are darkly colored.
But here's the thing: traditionally, in the academic study of the methods of behaviorism, there have been comparisons of positive and
negative
stimuli.
In this setting, a commercial setting, there's a new kind of difference that has kind of evaded the academic world for a while, and that difference is that whether positive stimuli are more effective than
negative
ones in different circumstances, the
negative
ones are cheaper.
And so they're getting the quick feedback, which means they're responding more to the
negative
emotions, because those are the ones that rise faster, right?
And so therefore, even well-intentioned players who think all they're doing is advertising toothpaste end up advancing the cause of the
negative
people, the
negative
emotions, the cranks, the paranoids, the cynics, the nihilists.
The more optimistic you were, the less likely this region was to respond to unexpected
negative
information.
Now we interfere with the region that we found to integrate
negative
information in this task, and the optimism bias grew even larger.
Now, I have to say that my memory is notoriously porous, and I've often wondered whether there was any truth in this story, or I was just, you know, misremembering something, but I recently just blew up this old
negative
of mine, and sure enough, there you can see the Shklovsky and Sagan book underneath that analog calculating device.
If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one
negative
emotion over the course of an hour, a day, a week, you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.
Second, it is
negative.
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