Anonymous ID: 4d4fdc March 18, 2018, 5:18 p.m. No.714753   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>4780

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To restrain a baby elephant, circus trainers must chain it to a huge stake driven into the ground. When the baby grows into an adult, however, it is many times smarter and stronger. What trainers must then drive into the ground is just a tiny tent peg.

 

The baby had tried everything to break free. It had strained with all its might, pulling in every conceivable way, hour after hour, day after day. The huge stake refused to budge. So, rather than mindlessly keep trying to do the impossible, it did what at the time was the intelligent thing: it gave up trying.

 

The baby grew into a powerful beast. Convinced by bitter experience that whenever it is tethered there is no point trying to resist, it never bothered to determine whether anything had changed. So it suffers indignities, even though, if only it could grasp the fact, it could easily rip up the peg and trample those who sought to dominate it.

 

As an adult, it finds itself bound not by a stake but by a powerful psychological force. This powerful force has been given several names, one of which is โ€˜Learned Helplessness.โ€™