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I remember every case I\u2019ve ever seen that unexpectedly went south \u2014 every single one. And my memory is awful. Examples of things I can\u2019t remember are the names of countless wonderful clients, what I had for lunch yesterday and all the cases that unexpectedly went great.<\/p>\n

I know I\u2019m not the only one in veterinary medicine<\/a> who looks at a case and immediately recalls everything I\u2019ve seen, heard and read about how presentations like it can end catastrophically. As you can imagine, this strange superpower is far from limited to a focus on clinical medicine.<\/p>\n

When we think about the state of our profession (and society at large), we naturally tend to focus on the pain points. Psychologists call this \u201cnegativity bias,\u201d a cognitive bias that refers to our tendency to pay more attention to, and give more weight to, negative information or stimuli than positive.<\/p>\n

In veterinary medicine, negativity bias leads us to spend much more time reflecting on worrisome aspects of our profession, like mental health, burnout and staff shortages, than on the smiles and successes we encounter daily. When we consider the future, the natural response for most of us is anxiety. We worry about the impact of advancements in telehealth, artificial intelligence, private equity, corporatization and online retail much more than we consider the benefits these forces might bring.<\/p>\n

Cynicism as Wisdom<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I remember yelling at a man at a veterinary conference one time.<\/p>\n

Let me pause here and assure you I don\u2019t normally yell at people. It\u2019s wildly out of character for me. I generally see behaviors like it as a disappointing loss of emotional control. Given that getting angry seldom improves a situation, it\u2019s a bad strategy regardless of your objectives. I can count on one hand the number of people I yelled at in my life and still have fingers left over.<\/p>\n

But there I was. Hands shaking and face red. \u201cYou\u2019re wrong!\u201d is all I remember verbalizing.<\/p>\n

I was in my first year in veterinary practice, and I radiated into the world enthusiasm for our profession and its future. I believed the future was bright for veterinarians and that veterinary medicine could give those who pursued it autonomy, purpose and financial security. Yeah, it\u2019s hard work, but I thought we should be grateful to be a part of the profession.<\/p>\n

I suspect the gentleman I met that evening thought he was doing me a favor. I think he saw my optimism as na\u00efve and wanted to share with me how the world actually works. After we were introduced and I shared a bit of my excitement about my first year of practice and the future, he leaned in conspiratorially.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, there\u2019s about to be way too many veterinarians,\u201d he said. \u201cThe schools are way overproducing.\u201d<\/p>\n

He told me salaries would tank and student debt loads would soar. He said big-box stores would corner the market for veterinary medicine and that we\u2019d all end up working for companies like Walmart. We would be doing medicine out of a cookbook, and, oh yeah, our profession was \u201ctoo female\u201d to be financially successful.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when I yelled at him. None of what he said was true. It wasn\u2019t true then, and it isn\u2019t true now.<\/p>\n

So why did he say that stuff? Some people think being cynical is being wise. Think about it. From food critics to fashion designers to political commentators, how many people have you seen crap on ideas and efforts in an attempt to look insightful?<\/p>\n

Listen, we\u2019ve all seen bad things happen. And because of negativity bias, we all tend to put a lot of weight and thought into setbacks. Some think they do a service by introducing pessimism or cynicism into a positive conversation. If someone is excited about something and I let her know it will never work and won\u2019t matter that much even if it does, I\u2019m saving her the pain of disappointment later on. Right?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what the guy at the conference must have thought as he tried to pop my happy little balloon.<\/p>\n

The Black Empire<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Bad news spreads faster and gets more attention than good news. Negativity bias explains a lot of it. We\u2019re wired to pay more attention to scary things than things that make us happy. When you think of the world our caveman ancestors lived in, that makes a lot of sense.<\/p>\n

A 2022 study found that the \u201cproportion of headlines denoting anger, fear, disgust and sadness\u201d in the United States got markedly worse from 2000 to 2019. Our behaviors on social media drive part of that. From 2016 to 2019, Facebook gave \u201canger\u201d emoji reactions to posts five times more weight than \u201clike\u201d reactions when deciding which posts to show other users. The practice arose because Facebook\u2019s machine-learning algorithms found that posts angering people fueled more engagement than posts pleasing them.<\/p>\n

We developed a word for scrolling social media and looking at the headlines and happenings: doomscrolling. If you aren\u2019t familiar with that particular activity, congratulations! You haven\u2019t been on social media in the past few decades and are probably slightly happier and more stable than the rest of us.<\/p>\n

The doom and gloom slant isn\u2019t confined to social media<\/a>, however. What works to get engagement online also works in the rest of the world. Outrage, cynicism and fear perform just as well on cable news, radio and podcasts as on social media. And here\u2019s the thing: They also perform well in conversation.<\/p>\n

At some level, we all know how to get attention when we want it, and it rarely involves saying something positive. Often, we choose to bond over complaints, fears and hardship. We laugh with knowing smiles about how the wheels will fall off, the plan will fail, things will get worse, or people will be stupid.<\/p>\n

Today, doom culture seems to be everywhere. Cynicism and pessimism have always existed, but the volume today and a healthy dose of \u201cnone of this matters\u201d nihilism are at an all-time high.<\/p>\n

Is Positivity the Answer?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I\u2019m sure it seems obvious at this point that I\u2019m going to say we need to be relentlessly positive. Well, no.<\/p>\n

Sure, I think a more positive outlook would do most of us some good. However, our profession has its challenges, and society\u2019s struggles are real. Ceaselessly pointing out what is good while ignoring the bad parts doesn\u2019t help us improve our world. It can make people who are struggling feel invisible and unimportant. That\u2019s not what any of us want, so let\u2019s set the toxic positivity aside and get down to business.<\/p>\n

The Rebellion<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In July 2017, Alexandra Rowland, a Massachusetts writer, posted the following on Tumblr: \u201cThe opposite of grimdark is hopepunk, pass it on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grimdark is a fiction genre characterized by bleak subject matter and a dystopian environment. The discourse around veterinary medicine often feels way too \u201cgrimdark\u201d for my tastes, and I\u2019ve had enough of it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time for us to push back against the idea that everything is terrible and getting worse. Let\u2019s reject the implication that tomorrow will be less enjoyable than today, we\u2019ll be more exhausted, and any changes will be for the worse. Let\u2019s tear down the belief that to be wise means to be cynical and to be funny means to be sarcastic. Most of all, let\u2019s flip off the idea that none of this matters anyway. It definitely matters to the people we impact.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s rebel.<\/p>\n

Like a highly educated and compassionate punk rock band, let\u2019s stick our tongues out at mainstream doom culture. No, we\u2019re not going to do it by battling negativity with more negativity or by hammering people with baseless positivity that doesn\u2019t reflect how things actually are. Instead, we\u2019re going to revolt by refusing to extinguish our hope and optimism for the future. That\u2019s the Hopepunk rebellion.<\/p>\n

Why don\u2019t you join us? It doesn\u2019t matter if others want to participate. We don\u2019t need everyone on board. We can each be Hopepunk in our own way.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s stare down the hardships of practice with leather-and-chain optimism and strike matches of hope when things around us look dark. Instead of rocking mohawks, we can jump in and help make peoples\u2019 days better. Instead of sporting face tattoos, we\u2019ll remind colleagues leaving our practice of all the good they did today and of the positive impact they\u2019ll make on the world tomorrow.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the rebellion I want. Want to join up? Maybe we can even make T-shirts.<\/p>\n

\n

MIXED EMOTIONS<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

A 2022 PLOS One study concluded, \u201cWe hope that future research throws light on the potential psychological and social impact of public consumption of news media diets with increasingly negative sentiment and anger\/fear\/sadness undertones embedded within them.\u201d Learn more at bit.ly\/3XplZ5R<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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