Why can’t we pull our attention away from a traffic accident or stop watching the news about the latest viral outbreak? Why are we waylaid by criticism or unable to get past a minor snub from our best friend?
That’s our negativity bias. We, humans, have a propensity to give more weight in our minds to things that go wrong than to things that go right—so much so that just one negative event can hijack our minds in ways that can be detrimental to our work, relationships, health, and happiness.
