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After a series of experiments in the 1960s (outlined in the video below), father of positive psychology, Dr Martin Seligman discovered that humans and animals are capable of learning to be helpless. To paraphrase, learned helplessness is not trying to get out of a negative situation because the past has taught you that you are helpless against some external force.Continue reading “Value-strengths: your antidote to feeling helpless”