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To be successful, should you focus on your strengths or your weaknesses? (with Anna Paley)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Negative Bias in Psychology

I wonder if part of what causes this advice to focus on our weaknesses, just arises from this fundamental bias in our psychology. With the thing that you messed up, you might feel much worse about than the thing you did well at equally well. So there might be a kind of disproportionate impact there. I have a little model of success that I've been working on in my mind. Success is very, very loosely speaking, kind of a product of factors.

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