Practising ‘factfulness’

[Tinkerbell]

I thought this was interesting and cheerful. And isn't 'factfulness' the same as being skeptical? Then we should all be happy bunnies
https://www.theguardian.com/world/comme ... -you-think

[Tony.Williams]

I think that ties across into something else I read recently: that emotionally, we react much more strongly to losing something that we have, than when we fail to gain something of equal value that we don't have. In other words, we are much more sensitive to threats and loss than we are to improvements.

We are also, of course very bad at assessing risks, and often think that the world is a much more dangerous place than it is (conversely, we sometimes fail to react to risks that we really should be worried about - climate change being an obvious example).

[Tinkerbell]

Of course, improvements mean change and some of us don't like change....