Rehearses the loss to survive it.
You're losing at the break, and your inner voice has already skipped to the end: drafted the it's-over text, imagined the walk home, pre-felt the whole defeat in high definition. The Eye knows exactly what this is, even if the people calling you negative don't — it's not pessimism, it's anesthesia. You hurt yourself with the imagined loss first so the real one finds nothing left to take. The Eye has the receipts: the results you opened already braced, the 'I knew it' you said with something almost like relief, the way good news genuinely confuses you because you'd already budgeted for the other outcome. And it works, sort of. You're never blindsided. You're the most prepared person in every room. But the Eye has run your numbers, and here's the quiet cost: you've fully suffered dozens of defeats that never actually arrived. The scoreboard says you've lost far less than you've grieved.
Get your read — free on iPhoneyou don't expect the worst because you're negative. you expect it because being surprised by pain once was enough.