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2023-05-16 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:57 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Mindset, motivation and happiness · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: Evidence-based framing

In a Short, Ali explains learned helplessness from Martin Seligman's 1960s experiments with dogs, says repeated failures can teach people the same helplessness, and gives two steps to overcome it: recognise it as learned behaviour, then challenge your thoughts with your capabilities and past successes.

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00:00:00 — Learned helplessness: the dog experiments, how it affects people and two steps to overcome it

  • ★★ Ali says that in the 1960s psychologists Martin Seligman and Stephen Meyer (as heard) found that dogs repeatedly given electric shocks they could not escape stopped trying, and did not escape even when an escape route was offered. — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ Ali says repeated failure can teach people helplessness too: someone who failed exams at school often enough may stop trying, believing they are not good enough, which can lead to hopelessness, depression and a lack of motivation to try new things. — 00:00:29
  • ★★★ To overcome learned helplessness, Ali advises first recognising when you feel trapped or helpless and acknowledging it is learned behaviour rather than an inherent trait, then actively challenging your thoughts by recalling your capabilities and past successes. — 00:00:29

Threads in this video

  • refine · How do you deal with rejection and failure? — To overcome learned helplessness, Ali advises first recognising when you feel trapped or helpless and acknowledging it is learned behaviour rather than an inherent trait, then actively challenging your thoughts by recalling your capabilities and past successes. (00:00:29)

Mentioned

Central: learned helplessness

Also: Martin Seligman · Steven Maier

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