Coach Noah Church explains learned helplessness and how it can hold you back from building healthy habits and changing your life. Learn to set better goals that let you congratulate yourself on your progress.
By setting unrealistic goals or standards that you fail to keep, you teach yourself that you’re a failure. You lose the sense of joy you used to feel in pursuing your aspirations, you lose trust in yourself, and you instinctively start avoiding reminders of your own failure.