Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

People come to my clinic we often do some nurse like testing and one of the tests is

negativity bias versus positivity bias. Negativity bias is you're focused on what's wrong.

Your brain quickly, almost immediately goes to what you're afraid of, what's negative, and

the news will tell you all sorts of things to be afraid of.

Positively bias is you go to what's right.

And so those two techniques are part of what I talk about in the new book,

positivity bias training. How do you train your brain to look for what's right, not for just

what's wrong? I've been thinking about this Bible verse a lot lately.

The beginning of wisdom is fear of the Lord.

And it used to always sort of bother me.

I'm like, why do I have to be afraid?

And then I realize people who have low levels of anxiety die early from accidents or preventable illnesses.

They die earlier is what you're saying.

Right. And often the people that go to jail, they have low levels of anxiety, they actually have

slower heart rates, they have lower sweat gland activity. Right? Like if I think I'm

going to go rob a store, well I don't because I don't want to be caught. Right.

And I don't like institutional food and I don't really look good in an orange junk.

Right, and so I'm always thinking ahead.

And one of the lies of happiness.

So I open you happier with the lives of happiness is don't worry be happy.

So Bobby McFerrin's Grammy Award winning song, Don't Worry Be Happy, is a lie.

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