learned helplessness

Self-Fulfilling Optimists

As my family was sitting down to dinner a few years ago, I noticed that my eldest daughter was repeatedly saying, or projecting, negative things into the future. ā€œI’m probably not even going to have enough time to finish my dinner, am I?ā€ She shifted in her seat, intentionally stuck out her bottom lip a little further, and focused her gaze down toward the table.

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