In Positively Ruthless Pursuit
What if you’re spending time fighting an emotion that won’t pass until it’s been fully felt?
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I like to think of myself as a relatively positive person.
I do my best to see the glass as half full and look for the good in most situations.
But it’s not easy.
Sometimes, no matter how well my life is going, one tiny bit of bad news can wreck my entire day (or even week).
Science has a name for this challenge. It’s called the “negativity bias,” and it refers to our brain’s tendency to give more weight to the negative experiences/information in our lives than the positive.
The next time it…
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