Learned Helplessness at Fifty: Insights from Neuroscience
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Learned Helplessness at Fifty: Insights from Neuroscience
the most extraordinary thing i've read past few months
is that learned helplessness is actually not learned, being helpless after failure, is the natural, primitive response
trying endlessly after continuous failure is something above nature and closer to God https://t.co/P9oZAGjQOH
this is perhaps the most meaningful paragraph ever written in biology, philosphy and spirtuality combined
it's literally all inside your head, all of it
just killing that voice inside your head which tells you to give up genuinely already triggers evolution of an organism... See more
LEARNED HELPLESSNESS
A conditioned expectation of uncontrollability that suppresses initiative and escape behaviors—even when real exits exist.
# When does it happen?
* Trigger condition: repeated or salient experiences where efforts don’t change outcomes (uncontrollable stressors).
* Timecourse: can form rapidly after a single intense episode or gradu
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