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— from Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience) · Grit Angela duckworth kat dictation
In the book
If I could give my younger self one line, it would be the simplest: don't be scared. And the fourth danger is learned helplessness. In the famous experiment, two-thirds of the dogs that had suffered shocks they could not control later simply gave up trying to escape — but a resilient third kept trying maneuvers to find relief, and it was that third who taught us what optimism and resilience really are. Do not let a hard season teach you, falsely, that nothing you do will matter. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)