Thank you for this article, Alvaro. Just this morning, I asked another Substacker why it is that we focus on the negative and not on the positive. It fits in with so much of this article. We remember the things that are important to us. The failures that devastated us, the people who kept us from personal success, etc. Only a few people, those who helped us break through learning barriers or lifted our spirits with a laugh or compliment are the ones we remember. Thank you.
You're right, we tend to remember what was important to us and not necessarily what is important on a social level, or on a big historical scale. Perhaps for someone who has experienced a catastrophic earthquake it can be an easy moment to forget if nothing happened to them and everything was safe. However, you will never forget it if your house collapsed. That's how our memory works.
Thank you for this article, Alvaro. Just this morning, I asked another Substacker why it is that we focus on the negative and not on the positive. It fits in with so much of this article. We remember the things that are important to us. The failures that devastated us, the people who kept us from personal success, etc. Only a few people, those who helped us break through learning barriers or lifted our spirits with a laugh or compliment are the ones we remember. Thank you.
Hi Sue!
You're right, we tend to remember what was important to us and not necessarily what is important on a social level, or on a big historical scale. Perhaps for someone who has experienced a catastrophic earthquake it can be an easy moment to forget if nothing happened to them and everything was safe. However, you will never forget it if your house collapsed. That's how our memory works.
I have a lot of happy memories around disasters we averted or were spared catastrophic damage. whew!