The “Domino mindset”, or how a single negative event can ruin the perception of our entire day. Dr.
Julie Smith illustrates one of our cognitive biases: this unfortunate tendency we have to generalize the negative. “Have you noticed the feeling of defeat, despair and the temptation to give up that this brings you?’, she asks her 1.9 million subscribers in a video posted on Instagram. The clinical psychologist is the author of the international bestseller Why Did No One Told Me About This Before? (1)