Why You Should Say Yes To Saying No
Asasia Richardson for Vital Proteins
There’s a good chance at one point or another you may have heard that you need to learn how to say “no” more often. However, knowing that you need to and actually doing it are, well, two completely different things.
No — such a tiny word, but one that can it be hard to actually say in certain situations. “The desire to be perceived positively and reduce the chance of conflict can make saying no really difficult,” says Asasia Richardson, LMSW therapist at A Good Place Therapy. We worry that the person on the receiving end might feel rejected or take it as a personal affront. In addition, Richardson explains that we all have something called negativity bias, or the tendency to remember negative events more strongly and persistently than positive ones. “This can mean that we dwell on stressful situations more, we remember our negative experiences more than our happy ones, and we might feel that a negative outcome is more likely than a positive one.”
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