It’s called negativity bias. It’s an evolved trait passed down from our ancestors. Only the people with anxiety who devoted a lot of conscious thought to unpleasant possibilities lived long enough to reproduce, passing on those tendencies.
I’m not sure if ADHD has anything to do with it, but it’s possible that there’s even more focus on negativity as a result.
Adhd kids gets more negative feedback on average, so just more of the negative stuff worsening this negative bias
We aren’t made for this world. It’s too easy to survive for us. We’re bored. It makes sense now.
we need more large carnivorous land mammals for balance
We killed all of them except wolves and some bears.
A recent study found that cat brains do the opposite, imprinting good experiences much more strongly than bad ones.
Now, if I can just figure out who to blame that’s not me!
you can easily point your fingers at how evolution wired our brains in general. Unfortunately for us, civilisation apes who don’t get brain updates when things are going alrighs, it makes sense:
which is more important to remember?
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a place where there are really pretty flowers :)
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a place where the bears live
negative memories have more real estate in our brains because they could come in handy for survival later, evolution doesn’t care for your happiness, just survival. You could be the most miserable git out there but as long as you successfully fucked an opposite gential haver once then that’s all that matters. And if your misery somehow contributed to you having fucked a lot? oh boy are those genes getting passed on
I read this very much like it was a comment on [email protected], and it added to the overall read.
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So learning has to be cringe
Is there a watermark on the hand in the top panel, or did ai make a hand out of Jigsaw’s face…?
Watermark methinks but I enjoyed the visual
Glad i could share! Also, that’s the first ‘methinks’ that i didn’t personally type out that I’ve seen in quite a while.
I hope it was everything you dreamed it would be.
