[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Perspective]] - People: [[Alison Ledgerwood]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XFLTDQ4JMk --- ## Summary - [[Our view of the world has a fundamental tendency to tilt to the negative]]. - [[We literally have to work harder to see the upside of things]] - to see the positives. - [[Positivity must be practiced]]. - How you describe the same objective scenario affects how it is subjectively perceived. - It take more effort to reframe our thinking from losses to gains. - [[Negativity is easy. It's in our nature. Positivity is hard. It must be practiced.]] - [[Break the bad by simply being good]]. - [[What happened today that was good?]] ## Notes ### Gain frame thinking and loss frame thinking - "Why does a failure seem to stick in our minds so much longer than a success?" - How you describe the same objective scenario affects how it is subjectively perceived. [[Framing effect]]. - For example, a glass that is half empty and half full. - Half full: [[Gain frame thinking]]. Like. - Half empty [[Loss frame thinking]]. Dislike. - We get stuck in [[Loss frame thinking]]. It takes effort to process ourselves into [[Gain frame thinking]]. - The more time spent worrying or regretting what we can't control, the less time we have to spend on fulfilling and experiencing what we can control. Without that mindset, we have no control. - [[Control only exists if you take it]]. - Be cautious when reframing thinking from gain-based to loss-based. ### Positivity takes practice - "[[Once the loss frame gets in there, it sticks]]. People can't think about jobs saved once they've thought about jobs lost." - It take more effort to reframe our thinking from losses to gains. We're quite good at going from gains to losses. Unfortunately, we seem to get stuck at the losses. - [[Our view of the world has a fundamental tendency to tilt to the negative]]. - [[We literally have to work harder to see the upside of things]]. - [[It takes more effort to change our minds about how the economy is doing than to change the economy itself]]. - You have to work to see the upside. - [[Positivity must be practiced]]. - When we talk, we rent. **We often forget** to talk about the **good stuff** - to **think** about the good stuff. "That's exactly where our minds need the most practice." - [[Negativity is easy. It's in our nature. Positivity is hard. It must be practiced.]] - [[What happened today that was good?]] - Bad and courage is bad. Creating compounding - Cycles. Break out of the Cycles. Lead with kindness, empathy, forgiveness, humour, love, and care. - [[Break the bad by simply being good]]. ## Original ![[Getting stuck in the negatives, and how to get unstuck-1.jpg]] ![[Getting stuck in the negatives, and how to get unstuck-2.jpg]] ![[Getting stuck in the negatives, and how to get unstuck-3.jpg]]