Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sometimes, it’s hard to keep pushing yourself to accomplish something when it feels like you’ve struck out so many ...

There’s a scientific term for the feeling that nothing you do matters: learned helplessness. It is a state experienced by all humans (and most animals) in response to enduring negative stimuli. In ...

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 ...

We all fall into a slump every now and then. But, what if you can’t kick yourself out of that slump? When you fall into a similar emotion — or when you give up on your dreams over and over — that ...

Georgia private school; Ask the Experts panel; inventor Ky “Rocketman” Michaelson We visit a Georgia private school for LD students for which countering learned helplessness is its mission statement.

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