Bad is more powerful than good. Use it to your advantage

Your own mind can be your best friend or worst enemy, depending upon how you relate to it. Just be aware that “our brain is very skilled at suppressing good news when it does not matter that much, but the brain is not very good at suppressing irrelevant bad news” (The Power of Bad). This is for the most part, the work of the amygdala, the part of the brain primarily involved in emotion, memory, and the fight-or-flight response. At times, amygdala goes into emergency mode perceiving subtle threats like timer, a text message or phone rings as if these mundane signals were life-threatening. In social science this is often referred to as the amygdala hijack.