Welcome to Nine to Thrive: The Well-Being Podcast, where we explore what it means to thrive and flourish in this complex world we are living in..
Join Julie Fischer, Positive Psychology Practitioner, Coach and Well-Being Advocate for meaningful and lively conversations with experts, thought leaders, authors, business leaders and more. We dive into the “un-well-being crisis” we are experiencing as a collective, and share tools and strategies that foster increased mental, emotional, physical, spiritual and financial well-being.
Ready to connect with a community of people who strive to thrive? Tune in every other week for inspiration, insight and maybe what feels like a nudge from a friend to keep moving, keep uncovering and keep transforming yourself, your life and your sense of well-being.
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Welcome to Nine to Thrive: The Well-Being Podcast, where we explore what it means to thrive and flourish in this complex world we are living in..
Join Julie Fischer, Positive Psychology Practitioner, Coach and Well-Being Advocate for meaningful and lively conversations with experts, thought leaders, authors, business leaders and more. We dive into the “un-well-being crisis” we are experiencing as a collective, and share tools and strategies that foster increased mental, emotional, physical, spiritual and financial well-being.
Ready to connect with a community of people who strive to thrive? Tune in every other week for inspiration, insight and maybe what feels like a nudge from a friend to keep moving, keep uncovering and keep transforming yourself, your life and your sense of well-being.
A Strengths Based Approach to Hacking Your Negativity Bias
Nine to Thrive: The Well-Being Podcast
21 minutes
4 weeks ago
A Strengths Based Approach to Hacking Your Negativity Bias
In this milestone 50th episode, Julie explores how understanding and using your character strengths can actually rewire your brain's natural negativity bias. She explains the neuroscience behind why we focus on what's wrong and how positive psychology offers a powerful counter-practice.
Our brain is wired with an over active threat detection system from a time when it was essential to be able to detect dangers like tigers and bears that literally threatened our survival. We're no longer running from tigers, but our brains still treat critical emails like life-or-death threats. Ancient software, modern problems.
In the late 1990’s Martin Seligman introduced the concept of Positive Psychology. After traditional psychology had focused on what was “wrong” with us for the last 100 years, positive psychology asked the question, “What if we focused on what is “right” with us?”
A more balanced approach included both addressing challenges AND actively cultivating what is strong, good and meaningful in your life.
We all have 24 character strengths (see link to assessment below) and in this episode we explore how knowing, naming and using our strengths actually rewires our brain to get out of the negative feedback loop and build resilience and self-efficacy.
The Mindset Shift
From:
"What's wrong with me?" → "What's strong in me?"
"I'm not good enough" → "Here's what I'm good at"
"I can't handle this" → "Here's how I can use my strengths in this situation"
Not About:
Ignoring weaknesses
Pretending problems don't exist
Fake positivity
About:
Approaching life from strength instead of deficit
Building genuine confidence that says "I've got resources"
Changing the conversation from what's broken to what's possible
This Week's Challenge
Identify one signature strength
Use it intentionally in a new way
Notice what happens - notice the ripple
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Resources Mentioned:
VIA Character Strengths Survey (free): viacharacter.org
Martin Seligman's work on positive psychology
Rick Hanson's "Velcro vs. Teflon" brain concept
Recommended Reading:
Authentic Happiness and Flourish by Martin Seligman
Hardwiring Happiness by Rick Hanson
StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
Nine to Thrive: The Well-Being Podcast
Welcome to Nine to Thrive: The Well-Being Podcast, where we explore what it means to thrive and flourish in this complex world we are living in..
Join Julie Fischer, Positive Psychology Practitioner, Coach and Well-Being Advocate for meaningful and lively conversations with experts, thought leaders, authors, business leaders and more. We dive into the “un-well-being crisis” we are experiencing as a collective, and share tools and strategies that foster increased mental, emotional, physical, spiritual and financial well-being.
Ready to connect with a community of people who strive to thrive? Tune in every other week for inspiration, insight and maybe what feels like a nudge from a friend to keep moving, keep uncovering and keep transforming yourself, your life and your sense of well-being.
