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A comment on Ask HN: I have nothing to do at work and it's killing me. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: I have nothing to do at work and it's killing me by TurkishPoptart on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @07:14PM (#21758242)
Yes I am. I feel as though I have little to no control over my condition. I'm sure I could learn to automate something. I just have no direction as where to begin.

I am complaining about having nothing to do because I want work to do, to contribute to a team, to work with other people and befriend them, but it's hard when I feel so arbitrary.

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Re:Ask HN: I have nothing to do at work and it's killing me by cliffy on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @07:35PM (#21758361)
Apparently the original experimenters who identified learned helplessness seem to now think they got it backwards: Learned helplessness is actually the default behavior of mammals, and we need to learn how to overcome the default state.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4920136/

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