The negative bias compels us to pay more attention to negative than positive stuff. Plus, negative events and experiences imprint more quickly in our memories and stick around a lot longer than positive memories.
Your ability to overcome your natural negativity bias (as well as other kinds of thinking errors) is a key point of leverage in your career success.
Procrastination makes you the victim of a kind of thinking called a cognitive bias. Cognitive biases are the brain’s attempt to simplify how it processes information. Biases work as rules of thumb to help people make sense of the world and come to reasonable, workable decisions quickly. Self-leadership skills are the key to overcoming cognitive biases.
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