I used to be an extremely pessimistic person, and I always thought it was just a matter of my own personality. Later, as I read and thought more deeply, I gradually realized: pessimism is not a flaw of a minority, but more like the default setting of the human species.
Bad news spreads more easily than good news, threats are remembered more easily than opportunities, and the psychological weight of a major loss far outweighs that of multiple gains of equal scale. From an evolutionary perspective, a reasonable explanation is that pessimism itself is a set of “genetic algorithms” that protected
View OriginalBad news spreads more easily than good news, threats are remembered more easily than opportunities, and the psychological weight of a major loss far outweighs that of multiple gains of equal scale. From an evolutionary perspective, a reasonable explanation is that pessimism itself is a set of “genetic algorithms” that protected







