Learned helplessness is of all the worst attitude so far, and it is the most common in the world today. We act in this manner often without even realising it. it was first observed by psychologist Martin Selligman, who was deeply interested in studying depression. he conducted some controversial experiments involving two groups of dogs.

GROUP 1
Were placed in an enclosure and were exposed to random electric shocks which could only end after a lever was pressed. in time the dogs learned how to press the levee in order to stop the shocks. the same dogs were moved to a different enclosure, this time, there was no lever to stop the shocks. the escape procedure was different. this time they had to jump through a partition. in this new environment, the dogs first looked for the lever that was in the old environment, when they didn't find it they go creative in time and found the partition and got out.

GROUP 2
A different set of dogs were taken and placed In the first enclosure with the levee but in this case, the lever did not stop the shocks no matter how many times they pressed it. in time, they learned that the shocks could not be stopped so they just lay there and whimpered making no attempt to stop the shocks. they were later moved to the second enclosure (the one with the escape partition) this time the partition was truly a means of escape but unlike the other dogs, these dogs didn't explore the possibility, they just lay there and whimpered when the shocks came.

most of us are like the group 2 dogs, because life never gives us anything on a platter and we have tried before without seeing result, we just lay back and suffer in our poverty not knowing that the possibility we refused to explore might be our chance for success.

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I like this. Each and everyone of us must have experienced helplessness and being unable to help the situation, 'cause we never really tried to overcome them as a result of previous experiences

Great. People need a change of mindset concerning how they view past failures.