"In homage to the earlier work of [[Martin Seligmann|Seligmann]] and [[Steven Maier|Maier]] on learned helplessness, where **the inability to escape punishment led animals to give up on a second challenging task**, Bob dubbed this phenomenon learned industriousness. His major conclusion was simply that **the association between working hard and reward can be learned**. Bob will go further and say that **without directly experiencing the connection between effort and reward, animals, whether they’re rats or people, default to laziness**. Calorie-burning effort is, after all, something evolution has shaped us to avoid whenever possible." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[learned-helplessness]], [[learned-industriousness]], [[consistency]], [[effort-justification]], [[parenting]], [[habits]], [[resilience]], [[adversity]] **Source** -- [[20241030 - B - Grit]]