You’re Not A Rational Thinker. You’re A Rational Negative Thinker.

So maybe you have to recognize your thinking bias.

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If you are a rational person but a negative thinker, then you might never know when you end up becoming a rational negative thinker. And the biggest issue is you might never be able to know you’ve developed this negative thinking pattern because it hides behind your own strong logical reasoning power.

What is rational negative thinking?

It’s a thinking pattern where your brain uses its logical arguments mostly to justify and emphasize negative aspects of everything. You’ve trained your brain to first focus on the negative part and justify as much as possible.

Here your negative thinking habit hides behind your strong reasoning power and stays uncaught by fooling you into thinking that it’s coming from valid and meaningful reasons.

This way of thinking strongly resists you from looking at the positive side of anything, even if there are strong reasons available on that side as well. Because when you try to shift your attention from negative to positive aspects, your brain quickly intervenes and condemns you for ignoring the negative part and being irrational.