(1) What I Wish I Knew When I Was Younger - YouTube
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Learned helplessness can prevent people from achieving their goals, something I’ve experienced first hand.Check out Audible: http://bit.ly/AudibleVeMore walk…
This is actually exceptionally helpful for someone young and confused about how to control their life paths
When a science channel is more inspirational than a motivational channel.
“To make a truly miserable man, have him believe that he can not change his future, yet have him believe that he could have changed his past.” - Me just now, but you know I’m right.
This completely resonates within me. Born into poverty, my largest passion being the forward progression of human knowledge and for me to one day assist in these efforts. Now that Im 26, I’ve never felt so helpless. no family, no friends, just me and my own thoughts. Thank you for this video. Truly
Me, being 18: “Hey, I’m young, I should watch this” And I’m glad I did. Edit: it’s been 5 years (almost 6), in that time I graduated college, got my first and second job and I can definitely say there have been a few moments where I did good work because I remembered this video, especially since I’m normally a procrastinator.
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when working as an employee I did not try to use my creativity to solve problems, I always asked my manager. the simple reason: I was afraid of being punished if I tried to be creative.
“Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, and the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
I suffer from depression, and this video made me realize that learned helplessness has been making me sabotage myself. It also made me realize that I am capable of more than I think and it made me remember the times where I had achieved what I thought was impossible. This video made me feel less hopeless :)
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t — you’re right.” - Henry Ford
Feel like I really needed that insight atm, cheers Derek :)
This is one of the most important videos on all of YouTube. Every young person should watch this
The best business motivation speech I ever received was “You’re closer than you think. ” It was true and changed my life.
This is one part of why abuse victims have such a hard time getting away/leaving.
“They didn’t know it was impossible, so they did it”
unlike most motivational videos, theres no distracting music, or the guy screaming at you, or some glaring scenery, or over-thought script: just an average guy walkin around tellin ya things that really help
I am watching this video at 20 years old, at the start of my second semester at university and all the stress and pressure is really getting to me and I get the feeling of helplessness and overwhelming. Often times I wish there was someone to help me, but time and time again I see myself alone with all the problems I have to face and realise that I have to be the one overcoming them on my own. This video helped a lot to realise that everyone had times in their lives like this and that there is always a way, even though you can‘t always see it at first.
“Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change and the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.”
This video somehow change my life twice, when in highschool my friend died because rare disease and it’s slow and painful death. Then I quit highschool because depression. I come across this video and try to change my life for better and re-enter highschool. The second time is during highschool, at that time I just think about graduating. But I watch this video again and decided to try enter the best Engineering school in my country. Now I proud to say I got accepted. My journey will not end here, I will find a new goal to achieve.
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“Does our school system promote learned helplessness?” Yes. Absolutely yes.
I stumbled across this video a little over a year ago. You have actually changed my life! It was like a switch went off in my head! Quit my job at target and now a manager in logistics!! I had a hell of a year…I’ve never put as much effort into anything else as I have trying to change my life and im finally happy with who I am! This video really lit a fire under my ass!! Thank you!