This episode is all about being brave enough to fearlessly live the life you deserve, what it means being fearless and how to use missteps and side steps as lessons into success. “You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, live out your purpose and to do it fearlessly – Dr. Steve Maraboli”
As mentioned during the episode, our brains are actually HARDWIRED for negativity.
It’s true!
As humans, we tend to:
For example, you might be having a great day at work when a coworker makes a snarky/backhanded compliment/passive aggressive comment. You then find yourself stewing over their words for the rest of the workday. Then, when you get home from work and someone asks you how your day was, you reply that it was terrible—even though it was overall pretty good despite that one negative incident.
So, here’s one of the many studies on our negativity bias. Research shows we focus on the negative and are hardwired with negativity bias. As provided in the sample scenario above, even if 3x more positive things happen throughout the day we will tend to ruminate and focus on that one negative thing that happened.
Try to disrupt negativity bias by being more aware of this human tendency and instead celebrate what’s going well.