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They had learned helplessness.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
He also believed that good character was his ticket to both productivity and happiness.
Samuel Barondes • Making Sense of People: Detecting and Understanding Personality Differences
For the “Pleasant Life,” you aim to have as much positive emotion as possible and learn the skills to amplify positive emotion.
Martin E.P. Seligman • Learned Optimism
The most meaningful form of performance is progress. The ultimate mark of potential is not the height of the peak you’ve reached, but the distance you’ve traveled—and helped others travel.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Psychology
Dean Millson • 3 cards
People who attribute negative events (such as failing a test) to things about themselves that are hard to change and that affect a broad spectrum of their lives experience learned helplessness, which puts them at risk for depression and poor health, gives them low expectations about the future, and makes them likely to give up easily on future
... See moreTimothy D. Wilson • Redirect
as “learned helplessness.” The theory, often attributed to American psychologist Martin Seligman, describes a condition in which a person (or fish) suffers from a sense of powerlessness as a result of traumatic events or persistent failure. For example, a student who repeatedly fails might conclude that he’s a bad student, and thus feel helpless to
... See moreJay Acunzo • Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work
The pleasant life, I suggested, is wrapped up in the successful pursuit of the positive feelings, supplemented by the skills of
Martin E. P. Seligman • Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
For those with the fixed mindset, success is about establishing their superiority, pure and simple.