"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." – Thomas Edison Imagine facing a series of unfortunate events where no matter what you ...
In 2024, The Stanford Report reported that on October 14, the world-famous psychologist, Philip Zimbardo, passed away. Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment gained national attention after recruiting ...
Learned helplessness. I’d heard the term before, but conflated it with weaponized incompetence, a phenomenon where someone (usually the male partner in a hetero relationship) exerts little or no ...
In recent years, college faculty, staff and administrators have noticed a trend of more students who seem to need consistent guidance, support and feedback in their daily lives. Professors report that ...
**CONTENT WARNING** This story mentions the topic of abusive relationships. Sometimes, it’s hard to keep pushing yourself to accomplish something when it feels like you’ve struck out so many ...
Instead of learning how to complete tasks on their own, many children in school today are honing their learned helplessness. Helicopter parenting is often to blame. As Verywellmind noted, "When ...
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