A closer look

Have a lovely day where everyone praises your work, but one random guy insults your shoes? Guess which event your brain will aggressively replay at 3 AM. The negativity bias is an evolutionary holdover where psychological pain is processed more deeply than joy. Focusing on the bad things kept our ancestors alive when facing real threats, but in the modern era, it just makes us incredibly insecure depressives who cannot handle light constructive criticism.