We all have a negativity bias.

Arpit Bhayani

Arpit Bhayani

Jan 03, 2026 • 1 min read


We all have a negativity bias. We tend to focus more on what we lack than on what we have.

This is why impostor syndrome is natural - we see both our strengths and our weaknesses, but give more attention to the latter.

Arpit Bhayani

Principal Engineer II at Razorpay - building Agent Studio, Ex-staff engg at GCP Memorystore & Dataproc, Creator of DiceDB, ex-Amazon Fast Data, ex-Director of Engg. SRE and Data Engineering at Unacademy. I spark engineering curiosity through my no-fluff engineering videos on YouTube and my courses