Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.
I hate being helpless, and I hate having to ask people to do things for me.
The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.
You just never give up. You do a task to the best of your abilities and beyond.
Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Your reaction when you lose control in a situation is to try and hang on tighter.
Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.
If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going, to throw more money behind it, to throw more emotional energy behind it... that's a real problem.
Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.