a lot of the current human race spends a lot of time worrying—which I think probably has the same brainstorming dynamic and shares mechanisms with the positively oriented brainstorming. I don’t know how to explain this; I think the avoidance of bad outcomes being a good outcome could do this work, but that’s not how worrying feels—it feels like my thoughts are drawn toward potential bad outcomes even when I have no idea how to avoid them yet.
If we were not able to think about potentially bad outcomes well, that would a problem as clearly thinking about them is what avoids them, hopefully. But the question is a good one. My first intuition was that maybe the importance of an outcome—in both directions, good and bad—is relevant.
If we were not able to think about potentially bad outcomes well, that would a problem as clearly thinking about them is what avoids them, hopefully. But the question is a good one. My first intuition was that maybe the importance of an outcome—in both directions, good and bad—is relevant.