Learned Helplessness

"Dogs who experience electric shocks they cannot avoid by their actions simply give up trying. They will passively endure later shocks that they could easily escape..."
"...People who feel battered by unsolvable problems learn to be helpless; they become passive, slower to learn, anxious and sad..."
"one in three subjects - rats, dogs or people - never became "helpless", no matter how many shocks or problems beset them."
-So what do you have to do to find happiness?, The Sunday Times, October 2 2005.

I think thats something quite special. Be one of the one in three.


Also if you havn't seen any cool movies on the interweb recently, check this out:
Wushu meets Star Wars
It's really quite a well done little movie.

*Update - The name of that article is now a link to the whole thing for those interested in reading the rest of it.