Learned Helplessness at Fifty: Insights from Neuroscience
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Learned Helplessness at Fifty: Insights from Neuroscience
The Learned Helplessness Experiment was part of some High Schools in the 1980s but it is no longer taught on any scale.
In humans, learned helplessness is related to the concept of self-efficacy; the individual's belief in their innate ability to achieve goals.
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thehigherfrequencyagendainstagram.comThis seminal experiment proved for the first time that it isn’t suffering that leads to hopelessness. It’s suffering you think you can’t control.
Angela Duckworth • Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
IT’S A matter of ABC*: When we encounter adversity, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into beliefs. These beliefs may become so habitual we don’t even realize we have them unless we stop and focus on them. And they don’t just sit there idly; they have consequences. The beliefs are the direct causes of what we feel and what
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Seligman and Maier stumbled upon a phenomenon they called learned helplessness. The dogs had learned that pain and suffering were outside of their control. They had no power over what was happening to them, so their only point of recourse was to sit there and take it.