The crucial difference between being flexible and being floppy, or What is the difference between people who grow and people who don"t?

One of the 67 steps talks about the acquired attitude in life, called by Martin Seligman: Learned Helplessness.

It is a distinction, and it seems that none of my students have even attempted to observe it, identify it, and recognize it... like the color in the color exercise. ((The goal of the color exercise is to get to a point where you can see the color everywhere, even where you could not see it before. Transferred to other distinctions, for example "learned helplessness" you would be able to see learned helplessness in all behaviors where it is a component, or where it is underneath other behaviors... you would suspect it in areas where you never produce results, etc.

The real secret in distinctions and the ferreting them out is this: you cannot be responsible for what you can"t see. So the goal is to see where previously you could not see. But see with your own eyes. Not through someone else"s.

If I point out a behavior, you may correct it, this specific behavior, for this one time. But if you cannot see the pattern, the distinction, then you"ll leave all the other occurrences of the behavior wreak havoc.

In essence I am teaching you to see on this site, to see. Most of you refuse to see... by the way.))

Because nearly everyone has it, and because it is so important to recognize it, recognize it as a learned behavior, not innate, not natural, not coming from the Tree of Life, I am going to do the work here... as a demonstration of what mastering the color exercise can give you.
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