Feedback Thoughts

 The first  article that I read was about why rejection hurts us so much. I thought this was an interesting piece as it discussed how rejection in today's world is different from rejection in the past as back then it was limited to friends, dates or jobs, whereas in todays world we face rejection everyday, from social media platforms, dating apps or people who ignore our texts. I thought this was an interesting way to look at the way rejection has change with the times. When they talk about the reason why rejection hurts so bad is because it's just what our brain does, it made me wonder what other reasons do we respond to other outcomes in specific ways because our brain told us to. The mention that it stems from when we where a hunter-gather society, that how we lived in packs for survival and that rejection from the pack could mean death. It then goes on taking about how we deal with rejection in negative ways when in fact we should talk about what we can offer and how valuable we actually are. I thought this was an interesting article that gave a unique perspective on why rejection  hurts us so much and how we as people can better handle it.

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The next article that I read talked about how to get past negativity bias and what this means is that as people we tend to always focus on the bad things that happen, which doesn't make a lot of sense because as people we have the ability to take a small moment of happiness and turn it into a great memory which we can be inspired from. It then mention how to control the amount of negativity you take on board through either thinking of a good memory, while enjoying the memory then you think about how you felt during it using your 5 senses. Then think about why you felt so good about it. I thought this was an interesting way to deal with negativity and feel it was a very informative piece. 

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