A useful and comforting thing to remember!
This is such a useful and smart way to think of it, thank you. One thing I wonder though, is whether that negativity bias sometimes—in moderation!—stops us from becoming assholes who are overconfident and too full of ourselves.
The writer Maya Kosoff announced this intention on Medium after finding the usually enjoyable process of cooking a Thanksgiving feast to be kind of a slog this year, on the heels of months of pandemic soup and stew production. The joylessness of assembling yet another meal was also the subject…
