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Learned helplessness is what happens when your brain decides “trying is embarrassing.”

✗ FAKE
Learned helplessness was described by Martin Seligman and Steven Maier in the 1960s after experiments in which animals exposed to uncontrollable shocks stopped trying to escape. It is not about embarrassment.

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