helplessness seligman found a tendency for humans to passively…

Page 120 keyword failed helplessness seligman found a tendency for humans to passively accept punishment after repeated exposure and it was called learned helplessness. It captures the least adaptive lesson one can learn from negative feedback. Bad stuff happens and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. When all negative feedback teaches us that the world is unkind, we passively accept negative outcomes, believing it's beyond their control to make things better. People do learn from negative feedback but they learn the wrong lesson, lesson that doesn't reflect the amount of control we have over our outcomes. As you know, goal commitment results from the perception that a goal is both valuable and within reach. With learned helplessness, a goal no longer feels within reach. We feel that what happens to us is out of our control, so we have extremely low commitment. This is one reason abused women struggle to leave their abusers.

— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)

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