stackyFACTSWe love to romanticize our misery as a fixed, tragic personality trait, but the guy who famously discovered 'learned helplessness' in the 1960s later figured out the antidote.
We love to romanticize our misery as a fixed, tragic personality trait, but the guy who famously discovered 'learned helplessness' in the 1960s later figured out the antidote. When repeated failure conditions your brain to stop trying, you aren't permanently broken; you are just running outdated software. By forcefully disputing your own cynical internal monologues, you can literally rewire your neural pathways to expect success instead of inevitable doom.
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