Learned Helplessness

by **Cactus Jack** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 4:38 am

Recently I posted a bit on Recovering from Bad Beats. I said I really don't suffer from them as others seem to. Lou Krieger has written on why I don't, from a scientific point of view. I think this one is a must read!

One of our favorite movies is Papillion . We admire the astonishing psychological resilience of Steve McQueen’s title character, which, like the most resistant of Seligman’s critters, cannot be beaten. He has survived decades on Devil’s Island , the most horrific of prisons, living through beatings, torture, and extended terms in solitary as punishment for failed escape attempts. He never submits. He knows that eventually he will find a crack in the barrier. Indeed, at the end, as he floats out to sea on his raft of coconuts lashed together, he shakes his fist at the sky and yells, “I’m still here, you bastards.” Papillion would have made a hell of a poker player.

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_magazin ... m_id=65556

Learned Helplessness

Learned Helplessness

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