today my beautiful girlfriend Tristan and I we're watching some cinemasins and
I was like wait a second this gives me an idea for video what is up everybody
this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem but
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anyways yeah so twisting over watching cinema since earlier I was like this is
a great like great way to talk about negative bias so I've talked about
negative bias plenty of times on my channel but I think this is a great
example of you know of the good that can come from negative bias as well as some
of the cons too which I'll talk about later but anyways just to lay it all out
let's talk about what cinemasins is for those of you who don't know and then
let's talk about with negative biases alright so cinema sense is a channel
here on YouTube and basically what he does is he breaks down different movies
and he goes through just like all of the mistakes in it right and not even like
mistakes I don't know when I was a kid there was like movie mistakes and like
you just saw like oh this thing was up in this scene now it's down or just
weird things but he just talks about like various potholes or just like
acting or like dumb lines and all sorts of stuff right so it's pretty
interesting and he he pointed out like the one behind me on the screen like
twist and I were watching that happening and I think he pointed out like a
hundred and sixty-seven cinema sins in it right but anyways as I'm watching I'm
like man this dude's negative bias is just like done so what is negative bias
negative bias is our ability to detect you know
something's wrong right so basically the way we evolved we needed negative bias
this is why you're more likely to notice the bad things rather than the good
things so this can hurt us when we're like reading through our comments and
all that kind of stuff because someone like me a youtuber I can focus on all
the bad comments rather than the new ones well based on our evolution we need
to do that because I helped us survive right so if something was off if
something didn't look right or maybe like we heard a rustling in a bush and
then a lion jumped out or something like we needed to be able to connect
like okay that bad thing or this this trigger means that something else is
gonna happen rather this noise or whatever it is sound smell whatever
right it helped us survive the problem is is that this can lead to anxiety and
depression because some of us still have a very strong negative bias but I did
want to talk about like there's definitely some positives to having a
negative bias so many people who have a strong negative bias they're more prone
to anxiety alright because we're always noticing all the problems but as you can
see with somebody like cinemasins he has turned it into a career and I was
just fascinated right like I'm sitting here watching and he's noticing so many
different things that I probably wouldn't they were gonna caught on while
I was watching the movie right and like I just imagine I was like could you
imagine just sitting with this guy and watching one of these movies and seeing
all the all the mistakes he's pointing out because I think a lot of videos a
lot of you know I make a lot of videos and some of it is just because I've
trained myself a lot of it comes from public speaking and running groups and
things like that so I just kind of go off the top of my
head it's because I've had so much practice so with him based on you know
what he's doing for his content he has trained his mind to spot all of these
different mistakes which is actually a very good thing so the other day or
actually I think what wasn't whenever I talked about Kanye West I
pointed out that book the power of difference I highly recommend you check
it out I'll link it down in the description again but it talks about the
benefits of different mental illness so again people with anxiety have a
negative bias but this is good so people with a strong negative bias they're also
more likely to live longer more likely to do a good job like you
got to think about it somebody who's able to spot mistakes they're often
better win working on projects you know because they double check everything
triple check everything you know what I mean so they're very meticulous about
these things and they can find these errors people with a negative bias are
also natural problem solvers as well right because like this is something
that I have a bit of like something I've always prided myself in is noticing the
problem but focusing on the solution like it's not something that I was
always with my mental health but even growing up like in school and like you
know with my anxiety and things like that like when I saw problems like I
just became this like fixer way like I was like okay here's a problem what's
the solution and after I got my mental health under control it's been a great
benefit to me because like when I work like when I was working at the rehab
center or I used to work at a content management company right and I like
finding things and just getting to like figure out how to fix them and solve
them because my brain just spots all of these issues and maybe that's one of the
reasons why when I'm watching other youtubers and I'm pointing out different
things that they're doing that maybe you could benefit from you know it's because
I'm spotting those things but something else is is that we need to turn that
into some introspection right we need to become more self aware of our own
problems of what we're doing we need to spot our own faults so we can start
working on those as well now here's another fun fact that I
learned from that book people with a strong negative bias their best match is
somebody who has symptoms of ADHD right so people with ADHD they get really
passionate about something they get really in there and they'll just go go
go go go but what there is time does it actually did studies where they paired
somebody with anxiety or more of a negative bias and they work very well
together because the person with the negative
bias they can like sit there and point out all the mistakes they could say hey
let's slow down I think there was actually a story in there about business
partners right like one of them was like you know the creative one they were all
over you know by just making things and making things that making
but the other person was in there to kind of like manage it and structure it
better so there's some great teamwork that can be in there right but then we
also need to talk about the cons okay so one of the issues is something like I
mentioned with social media okay but it can even be just in your different
social situations like how many of you and feel free to leave a comment down
below are you more likely to notice you know the bad things that people say
about you rather than the good things this is something that a lot of people
with impostor syndrome struggle with you notice all of your faults you notice all
the people who are critiquing you rather than all the people thanking you and
this is something that I actually have to work on regularly right so some of
you who are following my channel and you know it's been going on with me the last
week I'm getting flooded with comments my channel is getting bigger and you
know it stuff like that and I'm having to really identify and work and like
really intentionally find the good comments I really focus on them and
notice how it makes me feel right by the way that's a mindfulness practice dang
you didn't know you were gonna roll up in this video get a little mindfulness
practice right so if you struggle with this intentionally focus on the positive
right and notice how it feels in your body because what it's doing is it's
actually like it's kind of like vlogging data in your nervous system it's
reminding your body and your brain that this feels good it feels good to notice
the positive so I look for your guys's comments where you talk about how you
know maybe something I said in a video inspired you to go get therapy or maybe
my videos are helping you just focus on your mental health on a daily basis I
also just posted this picture of a comment up on Instagram and this is one
of my favorite things on earth by the way like the you guys are learning about
the prefrontal cortex and its responsibilities oh oh that just warms
my heart right but I actually talked about negative
bias in my video about the YouTube rewind so people who are prone to spot
all the mistakes or complain they train their brain to do that more often which
can actually affect us in social situations right
like does anybody really want to hang out with somebody who's pointing out all
of the mistakes or complaining about everything so not necessarily cinema
cinemasins cuz I don't know the guy right but I would ask you to look at
this with yourself like even though you're really good at spotting mistakes
do you sometimes go overboard are you constantly spotting mistakes like could
you imagine going out to dinner with a friend right and you know you're just
there to have a good time and then you're sitting there like oh look at
this on this menu oh they shouldn't have done this with this recipe oh oh look at
that the draperies over there or oh this glass and you know what I mean like this
can be an issue and people like oh my god just shut up and just enjoy the meal
you know so it's important that we find that balance because a lot of this stuff
with our mental health Hank I made a video a while back like people with
depression they're more empathetic they're kinder they're gentler because
they know that pain they know that feeling so they naturally want to help
more people out and a ton of it I learned from this book that I keep
mentioning by the way what have you guys asked me like oh I don't know if they're
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trying to plug them here and there and just let you know where I'm learning
what and where I'm citing some of my information and knowledge from alright
anyways let me know down in the comments below like how is your negative bias is
it a good thing is that a bad thing are you good at spotting things and problem
solving is it becoming an issue in your life like let me know down in the
comment so I can make some more content for all of you beautiful people out
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