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Carl Jung on why you are not what happened to you, 100 ways to live better and more
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A concept worth understanding: Nonlinearity

Jan 31, 2024
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Hello,

In psychology, learned helplessness is a common affliction that we all experience occasionally. It refers to the inability to take control over external events and a tendency to accept one’s fate as inevitable.

When something bad happens to us (a failure, rejection, loss), we tend to assume that it is beyond our control and…

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