Chuck Bryan

Then you have your belief and behavior, which in this case might be like, I just I can't pass this test.

I can't understand this stuff.

I'm too dumb.

And then the consequence is the C, which is because you have that fatalistic attitude, I'm just too dumb to pass this test.

You don't study and you fall further behind.

And the key here, you know, according to Seligman, is you got to get in there between the difficult situation, the thing that happens and the B thing between the A and B and change the attribution.

So in other words,

Don't go to like, oh, I'm too dumb to do this.

Go to like, no, that happened because I've been really stressed out.

I didn't put the time in that I needed to to study.

I was really had my priorities out of whack.

I didn't sleep well that week.

And that's an immediate intervention where you're putting the attribution on something that was temporary that happened and not this is how I am.

Right.

And that you can also change too.

Exactly.

And then conversely too, you can also say like, I got a good grade.

It wasn't just because I was lucky.

You tell yourself, I got a good grade because I worked really hard.

I got good sleep this week and I paid attention.