We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
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People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.
I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.
No matter what happens to us in life, we tend to think of it as 'good' or 'bad.' And most of us tend to use the 'bad' label three to 10 times as often as the 'good' label. And when we say something is bad, the odds grow overwhelming that we will experience it as such.
I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.
The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.
Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.
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