“What is the difference between true acceptance and learned helplessness?” a reader asks, In January 2022 in my post Learned Helplessness, Brain Injury, and the Pandemic, I wrote that Maier and ...

A few years ago some friends got a new Golden Retriever puppy named Sugar. When I first met Sugar, she was a ball of fur and energy. Picture this: a golden streak dashing across the yard, eyes ...

The concept of learned helplessness was first coined by psychologist Martin Seligman in the late 1960s. Although Seligman’s original research was with animals, the application of his theory certainly ...

In his best-selling book Essentialism, author Greg McKeown describes how we develop a sense of what’s called “learned helplessness.” The phrase comes out of the classic work of Martin Seligman and ...