Practice writing appreciations every day. I have a roof over my head, enough food to eat, etc. It's a skill you can learn, but like anything else requires practice.
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Risk aversion is hard wired into brains.
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The last chapter of my book *In Praise of Commercial Culture* deals solely with this question.
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I don’t think that’s the case for everyone
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“Hearing that the world is going to hell is more interesting than forecasting that things will gradually get better over time, even if the latter is accurate for most people most of the time.” http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/the-seduction-of-pessimism/ … — a must read article.
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Just read some of the
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Probably because people instinctively respond to external stressors more than they plot to preempt them. This can be changed by proactively addressing potential or actual threats.
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I think it's a System 1 vs. System 2 decision. The pessimistic outlook requires much less analytical processing. Things go bad easily, but for the perfect optimistic outcome we need to imagine the interplay of all of the successes. Harder to forsee/consider all of that in advance
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You could be a stoic. Accept that the pessimistic outcome might be true, but realize the fact that you will most likely survive it and be "ok"
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According to research it's actually the opposite. It's called the optimism bias. It's basically telling us our brain is hardwired for seeing the glass half-full.
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you can't - we're screwed ;)
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Gratitude.
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The number of steps it takes to complete a problem (infinite) versus the number of steps it takes to not do the problem at all (zero).
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To quote my favorite behavioral economist
@R_Thaler - make it easy. Visually represent the number of steps. Do some of the work for them until they’ve developed some form of tenacity.
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If pessimism/risk aversion is hardwired (per
@rabois), which lines up with psychology, then optimism is an active process that needs to be habituated in order to become the default. Journaling daily on best-case scenarios could work. - 1 more reply
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