312: John Tierney | Harnessing the Power of Bad
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 13 February 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
John Tierney (@johntierneynyc) is an award-winning science columnist for The New York Times, and he's the co-author of The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It.
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What We Discuss with John Tierney:- What is negativity bias, and why does even a small dose of it have the power to overwhelm even our greatest reserves of positivity?
- How can we psychologically overcome this innate negativity bias?
- How we can watch the news (especially during an election year) without succumbing to deep despair at the state of the world by consuming what John calls a low-bad diet.
- Why the worst person at your workplace has the power to passively drag the whole team down beyond the abilities of the best person to bring it up.
- The negative golden rule -- it's what you do not do unto others that really matters.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
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| 0:43.2 | It's strange when you think about it. |
| 0:44.6 | We might get 10 compliments on something, but just one negative review or comment. |
| 0:49.3 | And yet that's what we focus on. |
| 0:51.0 | We remember all the crappy things our boss has said to us over the past 10 years, but we |
| 0:55.1 | forget that on most days, he's nothing but encouraging. |
| 0:58.6 | Why do we do this to ourselves? |
| 1:00.1 | Well, it's called the negativity bias and we've evolved that way to keep out of danger |
| 1:04.5 | and stay alive. |
| 1:06.0 | But is the negativity bias just a relic of our cave human past? |
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