190 - Learned Helplessness (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
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The Benefits of Learning Helplessness
When Seligman put those three groups in the room with electrified floors and the wall, groups one and two learned at the same pace how to escape. The third group had no control over when those shocks ended. And even though they could escape it, they didn't even try. They had learned there was no point. It's as if the doors to the prisoner left wide open and you decided to just stay in your bunk.
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