Jack Dorsey explained the job of being the CEO of Twitter as being like an editor. Lesson 2: Become the editor of your own life with the 90% rule. Here’s how to go from “I have to” to “I choose to”. When you find yourself throughout your day, saying “I have to do X, I have to do Y”, over and over again, it’s likely you’ve to some extent given others the power to choose for you. Whether we’re doing nothing or trying to do everything, we’re giving up our power to choose, just like the dogs. They had learned to be helpless and just accepted their fate. The dogs who had had the chance to stop the shocks before instantly jumped to the shock free zone – the ones where the lever had been of no use didn’t. Later both groups of dogs were placed in a large box with a low divider between a shock zone and a shock free zone. It was originally observed in an experiment where dogs were administered electric shocks. All dogs had a lever they could pull, which would stop the shocks for one group, but not for the other. Learned helplessness is a concept first observed by Martin Seligman, happiness researcher and author of Learned Optimism. If you’re not doing anything, that of course means you’re not getting important things done.īoth camps are equally bad and a result of learned helplessness. If you want to save this summary for later, download the free PDF and read it whenever you want.ĭownload PDF Lesson 1: Doing nothing and doing everything are both signs of learned helplessness.
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