Seeker

by Douglas E. Richards

But evolution never optimized. Once it found a solution good enough to ensure species survival, it was content.

You’re wired by evolution to find bad news more motivational than good. To seek it out.

“If your ancestors heard the rustle of a friendly breeze far away in the tall grass, and ran away, mistaking the breeze for a lion, this cost them very little. But if they heard the rustle of a lion in the tall grass, and mistook it for a friendly breeze, this would cost them their lives. Seeing potential bad news behind every harmless breeze is a survival instinct.