Success Avoidance and Learned Helplessness Informational Guide
Common Characteristics - Conditioning
Conditioning
Success Avoidance
A person develops a pattern of not completing things. It is a part of who the person is and he/she is not aware of sabatoging his/her own success.
Conditioning
Learned Helplessness
Martin Seligman's experiment with dogs is directly reflected in the lives of people. If a person is conditioned to think there is no way out of a given situation then that person does not even try to get out. This is particularly true in the lives of those who are involved in the cycle of generational poverty. http://www.noogenesis.com/malama/discouragement/helplessness.html
