Passivity and learned helplessness

Cues

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• Marcus Aurelius · Meditations

  “It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.”

  QuotePassivity and learned helplessnessInsecurity and self-doubt

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  Lenses

  • Judgement, not event
  • Dichotomy of control

  Modules

  • Situational Stoic Maxims

• Søren Kierkegaard

  Grasping at finiteness

  We are attracted to freedom's power but repelled by its demands, so we draw back, deny it and 'grasp at finiteness', living as if our situation were fixed and immune to change. This relieves anxiety at the cost of growth.

  PrinciplePassivity and learned helplessnessExistential anxiety and freedom

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  Topics

  • Struggle to change and relapse

  Lenses

  • Anxiety as educator
  • Courage and confrontation

• Stephen Hawking · Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking, “Aliens” (2010)

  “Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.”

  QuotePassivity and learned helplessnessChronic illness and disability

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  Lenses

  • Dichotomy of control
  • Exemplar council

  Modules

  • The Ruling Faculty Council of Exemplars

• Robert Greene · The Laws of Human Nature

  “[Chekhov] made a vow to himself: no more bowing and apologising to people; no more complaining and blaming; no more disorderly living and wasting time. The answer to everything was work and love, work and love.”

  QuotePassivity and learned helplessnessBlaming parents and upbringing

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  Topics

  • Self-discipline and impulse control

  Lenses

  • Exemplar council
  • Purpose and inner order

  Modules

  • The Ruling Faculty Council of Exemplars