why you remember every insult and lose every compliment

Why you remember every insult and lose every compliment.

For your ancestors, missing a threat was fatal. Missing praise cost nothing. So your memory bets on the bad.

Negative moments stick by design, not because they're truer. They just have a better publicist in your head.

So keep the receipts yourself. Write the good ones down somewhere you'll reread. Your brain won't file them, but a note will.