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Imagine you are hosting a dinner party for six friends. You’ve cooked a meal, the company is in great spirits, and you sit down to the table feeling elated 🥳.

As each person around the table takes a bite of the delectable feast you’ve prepared, to your left on your friends plate, you notice a tiny hair sitting on the lettuce... It’s yours! 😳. You start to panic! This one ‘hair’ could ruin the whole evening! Do you say something, or hope she ignores the strand? 🤦‍♀️

Feeling ‘flawed’ because things aren’t ’perfect’, you announce the mistake, and your friend smiles and says “one tiny hair won’t spoil this meal.” 🥰

Welcome to your brain 🧠. We all have something called the ‘negativity bias’, where we tend to look for bad versus good. We may focus on our flaws versus the whole picture. We may see the one negative in a whole bucket of positive.

But the reality is there will always be flaws. Yet if we focus on them, we may lose sight of the entire meal. The ability to acknowledge our flaws and move forward is a superpower that transcends the hard wiring in our brain.

Life lesson: one hair doesn’t spoil the entire meal

Keep shining x

Katie 🥰