Content: After animals and humans are constantly frustrated, they will feel that they have lost control of everything and are powerless to do anything, thus losing confidence and falling into a very helpless mental state. This law was proposed by American psychologist Martin Seligman , hence the name.
Verification : In 1975, American psychologist Segreman once conducted an experiment with dogs: he put some dogs in a closed cage and then used electric shocks on them. The experiment found that when the dogs were first shocked, they struggled desperately and tried their best to escape from the cage, but after repeated efforts, they found that it was useless. As a result, their struggle gradually weakened, and they were even willing to lie on the ground and receive the pain of electric shock. Then Segreman put the dogs in another cage. The middle of the cage is separated by a partition, which is easily jumped over by the dog. There is electric shock at one end of the partition, and there is no electric shock at the other end. After the experiment began, these dogs actually lie on the ground and receive electric shocks. In fact, as long as they jump over the partition, they can avoid the pain caused by electric shocks. For this purpose, he called this state of self-abandonment " learned helpless ". Later, people summarized the " Seligman effect " based on this experiment. warned people to : not to give up easily in the face of desperate situations. Only by grasping the dream tightly and never giving up can we achieve the final victory .
Revelation: In the workplace, when you find that no matter how hard you work or how you do, you end up in failure, your spiritual pillar will slowly collapse and your fighting spirit will disappear. In the end, you will give up all your proactive efforts and fall into complete despair. In this regard, we should realize that the long journey of the workplace, with the difference between the industry and the specific situation, for most people, success may be a very slow process. The most important thing is to understand this principle: if your mind is too tired, just take a break, but you must not give up.
In fact, many successful people in society do not have extraordinary talents and convenient conditions, but because they seize their dreams and regard them as their lifelong career, devote themselves to their careers, and do not give up easily even in the face of desperate situations. In the end, they created the peak of one career after another with this persistence and persistence.
As the old saying goes: " There are only two types of animals in the world that can reach the top of the pyramid, one is the eagle, and the other is the snail ." The eagle relies on its strong wings and the courage to look down on the world; and the slow snail can also climb up, relying on its only ideal, identify its own direction, and then focus and persist in this direction until it stands at the highest position.
It has to be admitted that there are indeed a very small number of people in the world who are born with extraordinary things and are born as materials to achieve great things. However, for ordinary people, if we want to create an extraordinary career, we can only rely on acquired tenacity and hard work to approach our dream step by step like a snail.
Conclusion : Hope is a spiritual force that supports our own pursuit and also the source of motivation for our increasingly enterprising efforts.
