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		Aeolun on Nov 2, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How learned helplessness happens in engineering te... No, no. This sounds completely different. You searched out all the information you could, and still had no idea. That’s great (I mean, not great, ideally the necessary information would have been available, but that’s on the people providing the information). The problem is people that have not searched or tried at all, and then ask their senior to please do their job for them.

draugadrotten on Nov 3, 2021 [–]

There is a classic article about this issue which is from Harvard Business Review in 1974 and is about monkeys. a Must Read.

https://www.academia.edu/36290372/Monkey https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsd...

Aeolun on Nov 3, 2021 | [–]

Hah, this is great. I think I’ll start telling people to keep their monkeys :)

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