negativity bias Archives - Pamela J. Alexander Wellness

What gets in the way of your happiness?

by Pamela Alexander | Apr 5, 2020 | Mindfulness

Often it’s easier to answer questions about what we don’t want than what we do want, and there is a good reason for that. It’s called the negativity bias. ‘Negativity bias’ refers to our hard-wired tendency to “attend to, learn from, and use negative...

The election, the madness and mindfulness

by Pamela Alexander | Nov 27, 2016 | Mindfulness

They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns) ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb I’ve managed to pretty much ignore the...