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Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode I want to talk about

understanding the negativity bias and how that ties in with our anxiety.

In episode 440, the last episode we talked about why anxiety was so common and we ended up talking about the negativity bias and I

thought I would continue on with this last episode about that because the more we can understand why we are acting the way that

we do and that it doesn't just fall from the sky or out of the blue, the easier it is for us to actually make a change

and be aware or be mindful of what we're doing and move things in the direction that we more want to be in.

So if you can imagine one of our ancestors like we were talking about in the last show facing

maybe an ambiguous situation.

Let's use for an example if they were looking at a bush and in that bush there was some

kind of a beige shape. The ancestor could have made one of two types of errors and the experts call them

Type one errors and type two errors and this roughly corresponds to how these errors show up in their research.

A type one error would have been looking at this ambiguous shape and saying,

oh my god it's a lion,

when really it's just a beige rock.

A type 2 error would be looking at this ambiguous situation and saying,

oh, it's probably just a beige rock when it really is a lion.

Now, our ancestors can make countless type 1 errors

and still survive.

Make one type 2 error, and that's the end of your DNA line.

Remember last week we talked about these two kinds of ways of thinking and that this is human for us to be able to

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