learned helplessness

Βήκα τυχαία σε ενα φόρουμ ψάχνοντας για κάτι προγραμματιστικό (find/grep)
κάτι με ψυχολογικές προεκτάσεις..
(http://lists.hellug.gr/pipermail/linux-greek-users/2006-December/065869.html)
"...Όπως αναφέρει κάπου και ο joel Spolsky:

Years later, when I got to college, I learned about an important
theory of psychology called Learned Helplessness, developed by Dr.
Martin E. P. Seligman. This theory, backed up by years of research, is
that a great deal of depression grows out of a feeling of
helplessness: the feeling that you cannot control your environment
[for example can't get this find to just work in a minute and get over
it]. The more you feel that you can control your environment, and that
the things you do are actually working, the happier you are. When you
find yourself frustrated, angry, and upset, it's probably because of
something that happened that you could not control: even something
small. The space bar on your keyboard is not working well. When you
type, some of the words are stuck together. This gets frustrating,
because you are pressing the space bar and nothing is happening. The
key to your front door doesn't work very well. When you try to turn
it, it sticks. Another tiny frustration. [then you must find/grep
these thousand files and it takes 10 minutes to do it right allthough
you have a good idea about what must be done] These things add up;
these are the things that make us unhappy on a day-to-day basis. Even
though they seem too petty to dwell on (I mean, there are people
starving in Africa, for heaven's sake, I can't get upset about
[find/grep]), nonetheless they change our moods... "

Theory of learned helplessness in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness

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