The Effect of Learning Helplessness on Confidence

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The term learned helplessness is often used by educators to explain a pattern of behavior, a belief and a thought process shaped by negative experiences. Most people who actually experience it don't even know they're experiencing it because their brain has changed. So what's the use and even try? You mistakenly stop even though success is right there, easy and yours for the taking. Regardless of whether or not you really are.

Stuck in a bad situation, even when the prison doors are left wide open, we sometimes refuse to attempt escape. Why is that?

In this episode learn all about the strange phenomenon of learned helplessness and how it keeps people in bad jobs, poor health, terrible relationships, and awful circumstances despite how easy it might be to escape any one of those scenarios with just one more effort. In the episode, you'll learn how to defeat this psychological trap with advice from psychologists Jennifer Welbourne, who studies attributional styles in the workplace, and Kym Bennett who studies the effects of pessimism on health.

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