This experiment explains why people stop trying. > Why do people suddenly stop trying, even when success is right in front of them? A famous psychological concept called Learned Helplessness helps explain this. In one demonstration, a predator fish was placed in a tank with smaller fish separated by... a transparent barrier. Each time it tried to attack, it hit the invisible wall. After many failed attempts, the predator eventually stopped trying. Then the scientists removed the barrier. The smaller fish swam freely in front of the predator, but it never attacked again. Its brain had already learned that trying was useless, even though the obstacle was gone. > Humans can fall into the same mental trap. Repeated failures can teach the brain that effort leads nowhere, creating invisible barriers in our own minds. But the hopeful part is that the brain works both ways. The same ability that can train us to give up can also train us to persist. With new attempts, small victories, and repeated positive outcomes, the mind can relearn that effort leads to progress. The same mechanism that once held us back can become the force that pushes us forward.show more

“If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either.” - Mark Twain

Failure can train the mind. Not just what to do - but what to avoid. After enough misses, effort feels pointless. Even when the path opens, we hesitate. That’s the trap. But the same mind can relearn. Small wins. Repeated action. And slowly, the “invisible wall” starts to disappear.

People fear repeated failures, and in doing so, they experience learned helplessness. I also had a time when I was frustrated, thinking, "I won't be able to do it," due to learned helplessness. I've been continuously creating small success experiences to get out of here. Eventually, I gradually made myself into a person who does it, and now I am an educator too.

The human mind is a battlefield. Every day, you choose what thoughts win. Feed the discipline, starve the doubt. That's the only way to build a life worth living.

This hits hard. That fish story is a perfect metaphor for how we build mental walls after too many ‘no’s. The barrier is gone but we still sit there starving. Time to test the water again — small tries can rewire the brain.

Learned helplessness" is the matrix's greatest weapon. They don't need to chain you if they can code your mind to chain itself. The financial and social glass has already shattered; most people are just starving in an ocean of abundance.

The worst thing is that they don't know it.

The mind can be trained to quit,but it can also be trained to persist. Small wins are powerful.

Dysfunctional stories, this is what most of us are using to interpret and provide meaning to our moment to moment experience, and this is the actual root Robert Sapolsky explained in his book Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, where he made it very clear that concepts cause chronic stress and all the symptoms, including learned helplessness, belly fat, 3-4 am wakes, and many, many more.

It's dangerous, it's never happened to me but it is.

Sad. We could change our prisons either self-imposed or needlessly imposed by society (like excessive forcing of crazy rules and propaganda tortures).

Please see my "three different players at three different stages of life" story for further reading.

Sometimes the barrier isn’t real anymore— but the mind hasn’t caught up to what God has already made possible.

Vedanta philosophy would say: If you don't follow your emotions and desires (MIND), but use the INTELLECT instead, you could easily jump over the glass barrier for progress.🍀💚 We humans are capable of that. If we drown our intellect by stress, workload, addictions, we fail.

And the only way to unlearn this... Change the environment completely

Effort leads to progress.

Thanks for the guidelines, prejudice, and for breaking my nose, Big Tech. If you ever want to take ownership for what we’ve done, together, let me know. And if we ever want to get honest about the reality we are hiding from, then I’m up for that too. I’m here, waiting at the gate that we all know is fully open. So you can keep pretending it isn’t, but fewer and fewer people are going to care about what you put out, if you do.

L' analyse évoluée par le cerveau en interprétant l'enregistrement d'un obstacle extérieur et non intérieur peut se requalifier à la changement de situation (ex : les poissons nagent juste à côté et ne sont plus en face). Cette expérience montre aussi sa faiblesse de connexions n

Sometimes i believe humans are cruel towards animals 😊