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Learned Helplessness
Posted on April 18th, 2009 20 comments
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Learned helplessness is a psychological condition in which a human being or
an animal has learned to act or behave helpless in a situation, even when it
has the power to change its circumstance. The brain just says forget it, I’m
helpless.
The theory of learned helplessness comes from experiments done back in the
mid 1960’s on dogs. Dogs that had been previously conditioned or “learned”
that they could do nothing to keep from being shocked, would just lie down
and whine. Even though they had the ability and could easily remove
themselves from the shock, but the dogs didn’t even try.
Locus of Control
Years ago a man sold all he had to buy a silver mine that looked as though it
would produce enough silver to make him and his family very wealthy. He
worked hard day and night in that mine, digging and shoveling tons of earth
to find his treasure. Though he worked hard for days and weeks and weeks
turned to months he was going broke because the mine never produced any
silver.
Soon his belief, faith and hope of being wealthy began to wear thin. He
started to have thoughts of quitting and selling the mine to some other sucker.
Well he did sell the mine and lost a large amount of money, time and pride.
He became conditioned to believe that nothing he did would ever produce the
outcome he had hoped for in the beginning.
The new owner began to work hard with all the same enthusiasm, hope and
action the previous owner had. As he started to dig he only went about three
feet deeper in the same spot the previous owner had dug and unearthed a
large vein of silver that produced enormous amounts of wealth, he was a very
rich man.
The previous owner quit three feet short. He simply lost hope.
Know that you always have a choice to create an outcome. Zig Ziglar helped
me change my life years ago when he taught me that if you don’t like
yourself, you’re not stuck with yourself. You can change who you are.
Have a Wonderful Weekend!
20 responses to “Learned Helplessness”
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Great story. I always love your stories.
Have a great weekend yourself Lynn.
Work hard and enjoy yourself!
JJ Jalopy
Life Coaching and Home Business Advice with JJ Jalopy -
Lynn,
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if you don’t like yourself, you’re not stuck with yourself. You can change who you are.
>I like this statement much! But it consumes lots of time, patience,focus & belief.
It all links up to personal power you talked about yesterday.
When talking about persistence, how long is a piece of string? There’s fine line between sheer madness and perseverance. Nothing is more cruel business wise than if you are on the wrong side of financial markets. Being “persistent” when you’re against the markets is guaranteed suicide.
John Ho
Numerology Expert Helps Understanding Personalities for Better Influence & Persuasion (WordPress Blog)
Numerology Expert Helps Understanding Personalities for Better Influence & Persuasion (Money Page) -
Great stuff, reminds me of the old Earl Nightingale story…
I have a public domain version of “Acres of Diamonds” that can be downloaded here that your readers might find interesting…
http://www.assetdefenses.com/AcresOfDiamonds.pdf
Seize the Day,
Rob
Sales Eagles Soar Above the Competition!
Personal Asset Protection For Small Business Owners -
I love this story. It illustrates your point very well.
All the best,
Yann -
Lynn – This is such a great story to illustrate your point. Isn’t Zig Ziglar who encourages people to stop listening to their “stinken thinking?”
Thanks!
Pam
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Learned helplessness goes by many names, just like the devil, and it can keep us from living up to our full potential.
Great story to illustrate the point you were trying to make, which I took to mean we need to keep on beyond our expectations.
Steve, The Sales Expert
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Think nad Grow Rich
Don’t stop three feet short of gold.
Bob Kaufer
If you MOVE like the Tin Man, you will THINK like the Scarecrow and FEEL like the Lion -
I think that Nightingale/Think and Grow rich both present these stories – very effective with who ever I’ve discussed – good stuff.
Christian Haller
The Art of Good Eating
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Lynn,
Excellent post for today’s blog. The power of taking daily consistent action is what we all need to do.
Your posts are so motivating and keeps me focused on taking action even when I don’t want to.
Mitch
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Your stories are perfect for the points you make. I know someone who suffers from learned helplessness and it is such a shame. I just want to scream “YOU’VE GOT THE POWER.”
Lisa McLellan, Babysitting Classes – Babysitters, Nannies, and Au-pairs
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Hi Lynn,
what a great story. Indeed as helplessness is a belief and is learned, so we can instead learn Learned Powerfulness and Self-Efficacy indeed!
BY WHEN do we need to email you something?
DEADLINE please!Again, thank you for your generosity in so including us with your work.
Best regards,
April Braswell
Dating Expert and Online Dating Coach
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Hey Lynn,
Great story, makes you wonder how many people stop just three feet short.
Thanks
JC
JC -
It can be a great thing if we occasionally reinvigorate ourselves in our own business. Mark
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Duane Cunningham April 19th, 2009 at 05:17
Hi Lynn,
In all your posts it becomes obvious that you have learned off some of the best teachers of success there is!
And the fact that one is in control of ones thoughts and the past doesn’t = the future then it opens a whole new world of opportunities to create the life we all deserve!
Think maybe we should do a product together in the future!!
Duane
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Great lesson in the story you told. Also, I loved the the Zig Ziglar quote, “if you don’t like yourself, you’re not stuck with yourself. You can change who you are”. I’ve never heard that quote. It is good stuff!
Health, Fitness — Darryl Pace
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Lynn, the sory about the sivermine is such a gret on to illustrate how you never know how close you are to success. I’m gonna keep diggin !
Don Shepherd
Central Oregon Expert -
Silver mines and diamond fields There are plenty of examples in life where people stop just that inth before success. No laying down and whining allowed.
-Pat
Business Owners Fast Track to Internet Profits -
such a wondeful post…I love it…Thanks again for such good advice!!!
Expert in Medical Hypnosis, Success Thinking and Practical Parenting
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Greatings, Where are you from? Is it a secret?
Thank you
AnnaHopn -
Interesting, I`ll quote it on my site later.
AnnaHopn
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JJ Jalopy April 18th, 2009 at 15:39