Brightness
How much light you bring to what you're looking at. Controls whether you see the hopeful side or the dark side of a situation.
Jay Shetty and the Fear of Being Rejected Before You Even Try
Brightness controls how you read a situation — hopeful or dark. Jay Shetty's liking gap research shows that most people are reading social situations with brightness turned down: defaulting to 'they didn't enjoy talking to me' when the data actually points the other way. Turning brightness up doesn't mean being naive — it means calibrating your read of what's likely based on reality rather than fear.