This is an eye-opening essay on The Art of Negativity with useful read-across to investing.
This was an interesting result from research – “there is a clear “asymmetry in the way that adults use positive versus negative information to make sense of their world; specifically, across an array of psychological situations and tasks, adults display a negativity bias, or the propensity to attend to, learn from, and use negative information far more than positive information.“”
A nice quote – “An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds. A pessimist fears that this is true.”
