Learned Helplessness (Ep. 99)

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Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2016

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Many students and people suffer from learned helplessness - an ingrained mindset that prevents them from solving problems themselves. In this episode, we'll talk about the science behind it, how it affects your optimism, and how to cure yourself of it. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: Learned Helplessness at Wikipedia My tale from tech support Dog study The chimp study... didn't actually happen. This is why I fact-check! The Art of Loving, by Erich Fromm Optimism/Pessimism test Jake Roper of Vsauce3 So you failed a test... now what? Episode with Matt Ringel The Corson Technique Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:34.0	Hey what's everybody and welcome to the College and Poquique
0:41.0	podcast. My name is Thomas Frank and I'm here with my friend Martin doing another episode in the room and Martin this is actually your first episode like totally choosing the topic.
0:51.0	I barely know what we're talking about today but I know the topic is
0:55.0	is called learned helplessness. I know a little bit about this. We're going to
0:59.1	talk about how this applies to students, how basically students are taught to be helpless in the classroom
1:06.3	and in other areas.
1:07.3	Yeah, yeah and it learned helplessness can lead on to several other things that
1:11.8	we'll get into but the moral is the we're
1:15.1	going to talk about how it affects students primarily and then go a little bit
1:19.3	deeper into what it can do later on as well.
1:21.8	Cool and you read a book on this didn't you?
1:25.0	Yes, so rather than just Google search and just be accepting of that research,
1:30.0	I decided to go out and read a book called Learned Optimism, How to Change Your Mind and
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