Why doesn’t the human brain process negatives?

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I have been reading several blogs on a regular basis that discuss the Human Brain and how it can help shape you as a person and what you are likely to do with your life depending upon your mindset and what chemicals the brain is producing.

I learnt a lot from the blogs that I have read, apologies if I cannot remember any of them off hand at the time of writing this entry.

I’m sure you will let me know in the comments which blogs I might be referring to.

I came across a blog that said that in similar words “Your brain cannot process negatives” for example if you tell your self “I’m NOT going to be late” or “I’m NOT going to forget to buy that item”, your brain is likely to drop the word NOT from the process so you end up being late or you end up forgetting that item.

The forgetting item bit happened to me earlier this week because I used those exact words.

So what I would like to know is “Why the doesn’t the human brain process negatives?”.

Over to you in the comments.