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But how can you help people to get out of this 'learned helplessness'?
by herrherr 16y ago
But how can you help people to get out of this 'learned helplessness'?
- michael_dorfman 16y agoLearned Optimism. Seriously. Seligman wrote a great book on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/Learned-Optimism-Change-Your-Mind/dp/0671019112 http://www.amazon.com/Learned-Optimism-Change-Your-Mind/dp/0...
- billswift 16y agoI started reading this back when it was new, but quit fairly early on, when the author wrote that pessimists had a much more accurate view of reality than optimists. I wrote a post in March of last year, Optimism - Dangers and Benefits, http://williambswift.blogspot.com/2009/03/optimism-is-not-necessarily-as.html http://williambswift.blogspot.com/2009/03/optimism-is-not-ne...