It is just a symptom or correlate of how well a person is doing. The author explains that there is nothing in the literature that shows that self-esteem itself causes an improvement in performance. When you are doing badly, it will register low. When you are doing well in school or work, when you are doing well with the people you love, when you are doing well in play, the meter will register high. I am not against self-esteem, but I believe that self-esteem is just a meter that reads out the state of the system. This is the movement that has made competition a dirty word.
The idea of California’s legislature was that self-esteem should be taught in every classroom as a “vaccine” against the social ills of the depression. In the 1960s the self-esteem movement started in California. Is a meter of how well you do, not an end in itself The first experiments were done on animals but later many have been done on people and groups of people. The author takes you through the entire process of how he discovered that people can learn to be helpless, and thus can learn to stop being helpless. This book is based on proven principles of psychology. Of successful people is an easy way to filter out good informationīut Learned Helplessness is not any self-help book. Section which results in a watered down overall quality. There are too many authors trying to make easy money in the self-help Nowadays I tend to read more biographies than other types of self-help books that deal with more specific topics, why? Because biographies tend to describe better the ups and downs, which is much more valuable than just getting some magic formula to success.
Over the years I’ve read a lot of so-called self-help literature because frankly, it is awesome to absorb the wisdom of people’s entire lifespans.
Learned Optimism had a really deep impact on me. Read the first book of the father of positive psicology Martin I never even came across it really, but it is one of thoseĮxamples of really good intuition I guess. Years a little voice told me that I should read about Positive
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