Becoming Mr. Brightside
Dec 30, 2019
3 minutes
BY JOSHUA ST. CLAIR
ILLUSTRATION BY NEIL WEBB
“FOR EVERY NEGATIVE COMMENT, MAKE FOUR POSITIVE ONES”
HUMANS ARE HARDWIRED for negativity. We dwell on the bad. We assume the worst. We’re way more likely to remember that one time our boss told us we were sloppy than the 10 times she told us we were great. And as much as we try to look on the bright side of half-empty (-full!) glasses, we’re just not built that way. The human brain developed millennia ago, when danger roamed the savanna, ready to ambush and kill us at
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