312: John Tierney | Harnessing the Power of Bad


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Feb 13 2020 78 mins   6

John Tierney (@johntierneynyc) is an award-winning science columnist for The New York Times, and he's the co-author of The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It.


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What We Discuss with John Tierney:



  • What is negativity bias, and why does even a small dose of it have the power to overwhelm even our greatest reserves of positivity?

  • How can we psychologically overcome this innate negativity bias?

  • How we can watch the news (especially during an election year) without succumbing to deep despair at the state of the world by consuming what John calls a low-bad diet.

  • Why the worst person at your workplace has the power to passively drag the whole team down beyond the abilities of the best person to bring it up.

  • The negative golden rule -- it's what you do not do unto others that really matters.

  • And much more...


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