How to Control the Negativity Instinct How can we help our brains to realize that things are getting better when everything is screaming at us that things are getting worse? Bad and Better The solution is not to balance out all the negative news with more positive news. That would just risk creating a self-deceiving, comforting, misleading bias in the other direction. It would be as helpful as balancing too much sugar with too much salt. It would make things more exciting, but maybe even less healthy. A solution that works for me is to persuade myself to keep two thoughts in my head at the
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