“The Power of Bad” explores “the universal tendency for negative events and emotions to affect us more strongly than positive ones”
.” Accordingly, they are less keen on accentuating life’s positives than on trying to muffle its negatives. In part that means reframing adversity, like wounded soldiers who view injury “not as something that shattered their plans but as something that started them on a new path”.
A few of the authors’ tips are bland: keep to a minimum your dealings with any colleague who is clearly a bad apple, “make time for nostalgia” and in dark moments try repeating the analgesic phrase, “This too shall pass.” More often, though, their tone is challenging. They believe that higher education, after decades of enfeeblement by exaggerated anxieties about student well-being, should embrace a policy of “less carrot and more stick”.
At times, such judgments on supposedly overblown negativity may strike readers as a touch blasé . The pair are at their most bracing when, instead of lambasting the doomsayers, they extol “the upside of bad” and the power of negative experiences “to sharpen the mind and energise the will”. It has to be said, though, that some of those upsides come with titanic quantities of downside.
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