Our Brains Have a Negative Bias, Part 1 (TMF:2418)
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Peace to Live By: Our Brains Have a Negative Bias, Part 1 (TMF:2418) - Daniel Litton
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I wish it wasn’t the case that in this world are brains tend to default toward the negative. But, unfortunately, it is the case. Now a lot of scientists will tell us that this is due to our evolutionary ancestry. Well, I personally don’t believe in evolution. I believe God created humans to begin with, and even created each one of us individually. God certainly didn’t mess up when he did that, but what I believe is the problem is that we all have a ‘sin’ nature within us that makes us go toward the negative. This means that there is sort of a slope in the channels of our minds where the thought processes will flow in a downward direction. We will likely have a tendency to at first think the negative, or think the worst even. There will be a natural skepticism, a fearfulness that we better watch out. We better be careful. It is so much easier for us to remember the bad things that happen, and so easy for us to forget the good things. I know this personally to be true because I have a habit of keeping track of good things that happen in my life. I will make a note of them when they happen to look back on at a later time.