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People tend to believe that the world has no change.

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People tend to believe that the world has no change.

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It is destiny instinct to see an object as immutable.

Unless our knowledge is updated, this instinct prevents us from seeing all the innovative changes in society that occur around us today.

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Some Things Never Change (From "Frozen 2"/Sing-Along)

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There are so many accidents in the world. However, media only report very stimulative news and publish an exclusive one. We prone to overestimate very few events.

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America's Worst Accident | Plane Crashes After TakeOff in Chicago | American Airlines 191 | 4K

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Almost people easily apt to believe stimulative articles. It is one example of articles that shows straght-line instinct.

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The answer is, nastiness makes a bigger impact on your brain.

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Why do insults once hurled at us stick inside our skull, sometimes for decades? Why do political smear campaigns outpull positive ones?

The answer is, nastiness makes a bigger impact on your brain.

And that, says Ohio State University psychologist John T. Cacioppo, Ph.D., is due to the brain's "negativity bias": your brain is simply built with a greater sensitivity to unpleasant news. The bias is so automatic that it can be detected at the earliest stage of the brain's information processing.

In studies he has done, Cacioppo showed people pictures known to arouse positive feelings (such as a Ferrari or a pizza), those certain to stir up negative feelings (like a mutilated face or dead cat) and those known to produce neutral feelings (a plate, a hair dryer). Meanwhile, he recorded electrical activity of the brain's cerebral cortex that reflects the magnitude of information processing taking place.

The brain, Cacioppo demonstrated, reacts more strongly to stimuli it deems negative. That is, there is a greater surge in electrical activity. Thus, our attitudes are more heavily influenced by downbeat news than good news.

Our capacity to weigh negative input so heavily evolved for a good reason-to keep us out of harm's way. From the dawn of human history our very survival depended on our skill at dodging danger. The brain developed systems that would make it unavoidable for us not to notice danger and thus, hopefully, respond to it.

All well and good. Having the built-in brain apparatus supersensitive to negativity means that the same bias also is at work in every sphere of our lives at all times.

So it should come as no surprise to learn that it plays an especially powerful role in our most intimate relationships. Numerous researchers have found that there is "an ecology of marriage," an ideal balance between negativity and positivity in the atmosphere between partners.

Psychologist John Gottman, Ph.D., at the University of Washington is one. He finds that there seems to be some kind of thermostat operating in healthy marriages that regulates the balance between positive and negative. For example, when partners get contemptuous-that is, when they fight by hurling criticism with the intent to insult the partner, which the partner rightly perceives as especially hurtful-they correct it with lots of positivity-touching, smiling, paying compliments, laughing, and other such acts. They don't correct necessarily right away, but they definitely do it sometime soon.

What really separates contented couples from those in deep marital misery is a healthy balance between their positive and negative feelings and actions toward each other. Even couples who are volatile and argue a lot stick together by balancing their frequent arguments with a lot of demonstrations of love and passion.

Because of the disproportionate weight of the negative, balance does not mean a 50-50 equilibrium. Gottman, for example, as part of his research carefully charted the amount of time couples spent fighting versus interacting positively. Across the board he found that a very specific ratio exists between the amount of positivity and negativity required to make a marriage satisfying.

That magic ratio is 5 to 1. As long as there is five times as much positive feeling and interaction between husband and wife as there is negative, the marriage was likely to be stable over time. In contrast, those couples who were heading for divorce were doing far too little on the positive side to compensate for the growing negativity between them.

Other researcher have found the same thing. It is the frequency of small positive acts that matters most, in a ratio of about 5 to 1.

Interestingly, occasional large positive experiences-say, a big birthday bash-are nice, but they don't make the necessary impact on our brain to override the tilt to negativity. It takes frequent small positive experiences to tip the scales toward happiness.

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Why do insults once hurled at us stick inside our skull, sometimes for decades? Why do political smear campaigns outpull positive ones? The answer is, nastiness makes a bigger impact on your brain. And that, says Ohio State University psychologist John T.

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Psychology: Why bad news dominates the headlines

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Why is the news filled with disaster and corruption? It may be because we’re drawn to depressing stories without realising, says psychologist Tom Stafford

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creativity and innovation has been consistent in showing the value of exposing individuals to experiences with multiple perspectives and worldviews. If we have single perspective, we can see the distorted world.

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As 2016 comes to a close, it may go down in history as a political turning point. Contentious elections and referendums in Europe and America have provided a series of unexpected shocks. One constant theme in all these major political events has been the debate around immigration and cultural diversity. Within Europe there is now a strand of politics that is emphasizing national identity over more shared identities such as the European Union. Britain's vote for Brexit is just one example of how such thinking is entering the mainstream of political discourse.

This change in political attitudes towards cultural diversity may be putting companies in a bit of bind. While multicultural living can be challenging for communities, cultural diversity can also serve as a boost to creativity and innovation. In a fast changing world, where the ability to innovate is now recognized as the main competitive edge, companies must seek to create more diverse teams. So for companies, taking an anti-diversity posture may actually hurt their long-term profitability.

But is there really evidence that multicultural experiences enhance creativity? And if they do, how does it happen? This article focuses on these two questions.
A Town Called Eureka
At the heart of innovation is the light bulb moment. Creative ideas can pop-up in spontaneous eureka moments, or when teams are deliberately trying to solve specific problems. Although, there is hard work and discipline involved in getting a new product successfully to market; without that magical 'aha' moment of creativity, companies would have no new ideas to work on.

These creative 'aha' moments always seem sudden and unexpected. Ideas 'pop-up out of nowhere' and this can make creativity seem mysterious or mystical. However, researchers have been able to identify the social and psychological factors that influence creativity. One such finding is that multicultural experiences enhance creativity. There are quite a few examples of creative individuals who did their best work while they were living abroad. Picasso, Handel, Hemingway and Stravinsky all created their most well-regarded work while living in foreign countries.
When In Rome
William Maddux, a Professor in Organizational Behaviour at , has been working with colleagues to understand how living abroad enhances creativity. They have found that it is not merely travelling to foreign countries (e.g. on holiday), that enhances creativity. Instead, creativity is enhanced when individuals spend time living abroad, learning and immersing themselves in foreign cultures.

For example, Maddux and colleagues conducted in which they had people engage in one-to-one negotiations as a buyer and a seller. They also measured whether the individuals involved in the negotiations had spent time traveling or living abroad. What they found was that time spent abroad, versus just travelling abroad, significantly predicted the likelihood that creative deals were reached.

In other research , they found that multicultural experiences enhanced idea flexibility and an awareness of the underlying connections between ideas. However, they found that this creative benefit mostly accrued to individuals who had spent time learning about the underlying meanings and functions of different cultural behaviors, while they were living abroad.
Integrative Complexity
It seems that the ability to integrate different points of view is what enhances individual creativity. In research by Carmit Tadmor , a Senior Lecturer at the Coller School of Management (Tel Aviv University), bi-cultural individuals who were able to identify with both their home and host cultures showed enhanced creativity. What Tadmor and colleagues found was that these bi-culturals had greater levels of integrative complexity , which is the ability to consider and combine multiple perspectives and points of view.

Similar findings were obtained in research by Chi-Ying Cheng , a Professor at Singapore Management University. Cheng and her colleagues found that Asian-Americans who had higher levels of identity integration (i.e. perceived compatibility between their two social identities), were more creative in coming up with food dishes, especially when using Asian and American ingredients. This research shows that when people reject or ignore their differing cultural experiences, they may not gain from the benefits that those experiences bring.
The Town Called Eureka Is Multicultural
In the , Tom Kelley describes the innovation process at , the awarding design consultancy. At the heart of their process is an understanding that eureka moments of creativity arise when multiple unique insights are combined to create something novel. So when they work on any project, there is an explicit effort to expose their innovation teams to diverse experiences. This can be through watching customers, working with diverse team members or even learning about how different objects or materials work. These insights are then used to inform creative thinking in a process that is a manifestation of integrative complexity .

Research on creativity and innovation has been consistent in showing the value of exposing individuals to experiences with multiple perspectives and worldviews . It is the combination of these various perspectives in novel ways that result in new ideas "popping up." Creative "aha" moments do not happen by themselves. Management have to design their companies for serendipity. Therefore, as much as working with people from other cultures can be difficult, the town called Eureka is a diverse multicultural place where creativity genius thrives and innovative new products are developed.

I am Associate Partner at Strategyzer, where I help large companies innovate for the future, while running their core business. I hold a PhD in Psychology and an MBA. I

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As 2016 comes to a close, it may go down in history as a political turning point. Contentious elections and referendums in Europe and America have provided a series of unexpected shocks. One constant theme in all these major political events has been the debate around immigration and cultural diversity.