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For the Burned Out, Fried, and Exhausted | Emily & Amelia Nagoski
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Overcoming Learned Helplessness and Demonstrating Agency
The research on learned helplessness began with animals, particularly dogs, and showed that merely changing mindset is not enough to overcome it. Learned helplessness is not a cognitive learning but a deep-seated learning in the nervous system. Demonstrating agency and physical action is crucial to retrain the nervous system. For humans, doing something physical, like building a pathway or continuing to work, helps demonstrate agency and overcome the feeling of helplessness. It's important to acknowledge that one's evaluation of accomplishments should consider the parameters and the big picture, especially if the game was unwinnable.
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