Level Up by Michelle Ribeiro

Author:Michelle Ribeiro
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Adams Media
Published: 2021-04-13T00:00:00+00:00

When you see your expectations written out like this, it becomes clear how silly it is to live this way. They might take a whole lifetime to fulfill, and there’s no guarantee that they ever even will! Does that mean you’ll never be happy? No! Think about how you can take ownership of your well-being and learn to love your life as it already is.

EXERCISE 57: END DOOMSCROLLING

There’s a limitless amount of content online that we could get lost in for hours on end—and that’s exactly what’s happening! But more often than not, we get lost in the negative stuff. There’s a growing body of evidence that humans prioritize negative news over positive news. After all, bad news is typically what dominates the headlines. Studies also show that negative content is more likely to be perceived as truthful.

There’s a new term that refers to the tendency to get lost in negative content: Doomscrolling is continuously scrolling through bad news, consuming article after article, video after video. We can’t seem to look away.

But there’s a not-so-fine line between staying informed and staying fixated on what is wrong with the world. Being an optimist doesn’t mean that you don’t recognize life’s challenges. It means that despite those challenges, you choose to focus on what is good, because focusing on the negative is not very productive. Simply put, the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is what you choose to focus on. You are in control of your negative-content consumption!

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