Brain Matters documentary | Early Childhood Development

Your brain is wired to expect the worst - but it’s also plastic enough to relearn hope. 🧠 The neuroscience: The brain has a built-in negativity bias driven by the amygdala and threat circuits. Repeatedly imagining worst-case outcomes strengthens these pathways via Hebbian learning (“neurons that fire together wire together”). Over time, your default prediction becomes danger, not possibility. 🔁 How you rewire it: When you consciously generate best-case or even neutral outcomes, you activate th