keyword thought your brain has an obsession to keep…
Page 192 keyword emotion keyword thought your brain has an obsession to keep you alive and therefore it conveniently ignores what is blatantly obvious. That is that our lives generally operate with a continuing flow of positive events. These positive events are occasionally interrupted by negative events. The brain ends up paying attention to the negatives more than the positives.
— from The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy) · Solve for Happy, Engineer your Path to Joy. By Mo Gawdat
In the book
The tilt of the instruments. You should know that your panel is rigged toward the negative. The brain, obsessed with keeping you alive, pays far more attention to the bad than the good and quietly ignores the steady stream of fine ordinary days. Two simple questions re-level it. — The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy)