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Originally Posted by Esaias
If people don't have problems to deal with, they will invent problems to deal with. That's my observation of the average human being. Not sure why that is though.
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Could it be that people default to a negativity bias?
https://positivepsychology.com/3-ste...ity-bias/#bias
Negativity bias refers to our proclivity to “attend to, learn from, and use negative information far more than positive information” (Vaish, Grossmann, & Woodward, 2008, p. 383). We can think of it as an asymmetry in how we process negative and positive occurrences to understand our world, one in which “negative events elicit more rapid and more prominent responses than non-negative events” (Carretié, Mercado, Tapia, & Hinojosa., 2001, p. 75).
I think this is why we are exhorted to think on positive things:
Philippians 4:8
King James Version
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.