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How to Overcome Learned Helplessness - The 3 Fateful P's
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What is Learned Helplessness and why does it matter? The term was created by Dr. Martin Seligman to characterize people who feel they have no control over their lives. A person can have acquired helplessness due to one of three types of beliefs:
Personalization refers to the tendency to place the blame for mistakes on oneself. After all, you are the common denominator in all the issues you encounter. Additionally, ideas like internal locus of control and accepting responsibility for our own lives have been taught to us. But where there is confusion is in the line between accepting responsibility and blaming or assigning fault to yourself.
Pervasiveness refers to when a problem in one aspect of your life spreads to all other areas.
Permanence refers to the idea that the issue will always exist and that how awful you are feeling right now will always remain.
Overcoming the 3 Fateful P's comes down to an awareness that these P's exist and reframing how the experience could be Impersonal, Impermanent, and Specific.
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