How to Combat Learned Helplessness

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When it comes to learned helplessness, we are not helpless. There's a number of ways that we can try to combat it. One way would be to create situations that have a positive outcome. Another type of strategy is sometimes used in therapy called cognitive behavioral therapy.

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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