John Tierney (@johntierneynyc) is an award-winning science columnist for The New York Times, and he's the co-author of The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It.

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What We Discuss with John Tierney:

What is negativity bias, and why does even a small dose of it have the power to overwhelm even our greatest reserves of positivity?
How can we psychologically overcome this innate negativity bias?
How we can watch the news (especially during an election year) without succumbing to deep despair at the state of the world by consuming what John calls a low-bad diet.
Why the worst person at your workplace has the power to passively drag the whole team down beyond the abilities of the best person to bring it up.
The negative golden rule -- it's what you do not do unto others that really matters.
And much more...

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