Elephants are the largest of the land mammals.
Even the ferocious beasts retreated in front of its massive body, trying to avoid it?
How did people tame this animal, which even beasts of prey fear?
First, the baby elephants were tied to sturdy wooden stakes.
The baby elephant wasn't strong enough, so no matter how much it tried to get out of the rope, it struggled for weeks and every time it failed.
In this way, after three or four weeks of hard work, all attempts to break free from ** came to naught.
It thinks that no matter how hard it tries, it can't change the status quo.
In a few years, when the baby elephant grows into an elephant, it has strong enough strength to easily pull out the stake and get free, but it still thinks that it can't break free from the **, and it can't even do the least try, so it can only become a docile elephant.
The act of giving up the idea of trying even though you have the power to fulfill your own desires after suffering one failure after another is called "habitual helplessness."
An experiment conducted with dogs verified the effect of "habitual helplessness".
Affirmative psychology guru Martin, Seligman, MDr. conducted an experiment:
He kept the dog in a cage with an electric shock device and observed the dog's reaction under three different conditions of electric shock.
First of all, keep the dogs in group A in a kennel where no matter what method is used, they cannot escape the effects of the electric shock;
When the dog in group B receives an electric shock, it can escape from the electric shock by touching the plank escape button.
In the end, the dogs in group C did not receive any electric shocks.
After 24 hours, the dog was herded into a new kennel.
Use two walls to divide the new kennel into three rooms, and when one room is shocked, you can avoid it by jumping to the other.
The results of the experiment showed that the dogs in group B who had had experience of escaping and those in group C who had no experience of receiving any electric shocks or had experience of escaping escaped to the next room altogether.
On the contrary, the group A dogs, who could not escape from the electric shock in the past, could escape by themselves, although they could escape, but they only had no choice but to bear the pain of the electric shock.
What is even more surprising is that measures were taken to remind the dogs in group A who had given up the attempt to escape from the shock that they could avoid the shock by jumping over the wall to the next room, but the dogs in group A still did not fight and lay on the spot to suffer the pain of the shock.
The dogs in Group A had the experience of not being able to escape in the past, no matter how hard they tried, so they still felt that they could not escape from the electric shock in their new environment.
In the same way, if you experience many failures or setbacks, your desire to succeed will be greatly reduced, and you will often blame the failure not on your own efforts, but on the current situation in front of you.
Are you still being inhibited by past failures and unable to perform your abilities normally?
If you feel that you are incompetent and cannot make any progress no matter what you do, then first objectively analyze your current situation and goals, and then lower your goals slightly, start with small things and try to succeed, and gradually develop self-confidence.
In an ever-changing social environment, the failures of the past are no longer immutable.