Jan 18
While running her , which is for smart, positive, ADHD women Tracy noticed that there were some brilliant women who just seemed stuck. They weren’t \acknowledging or working in their area of brilliance and were just focused on what’s not working. They had lost sight of what was working and Tracy realized they had just given up. She believed that this was in part because of their ADHD. So she did some research and discovered learned helplessness. Tracy explains what learned helplessness is and introduces you to who coined the term and is a psychologist and the godfather of the positive psychology movement.
Learn what happened when Seligman conditioned dogs to expect a negative situation even before it happened and how this can apply to people as well. Discover the most harmful attributions that you can apply in a situation when something bad happens and why these attributions cause learned helplessness. Find out what kinds of health problems can result from learned helplessness and how it can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Tracy then talks about how learned helplessness can be applied to ADHD women especially those who aren’t diagnosed or were diagnosed later in life. She cites a study on learned helplessness done on ADHD women by .
Tracy gives an example of a recent situation where she used an internal attribution and just assumed that the problem was with her ADHD brain rather than the fact that an article was just poorly written. Learn what workarounds you can employ for learned helplessness. Tracy shares research on motivation. She authored the best-selling book . Find out the difference between a fixed and a growth mindset and which one of these two mindsets successful people in all fields possess and which mindset causes those with ADHD to give up. Learn how ADHD can help us build the right mindset and work ethic and why what we say to ourselves matters. You’ll also want to know why praising your kids’ intelligence doesn’t make sense and what you need to do today to get back control over your life.
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"Carol Dweck is a professor of psychology at Stanford. And she is one of the leading researchers on motivation. She's also the author of the book mindset, which was the rage."
- Tracy Otsuka
"A fixed mindset is that you believe that your talents and abilities, your intelligence is fixed. Either you have it or you don't."
- Tracy Otsuka
"Whatever we focus on just gets bigger, right? So if we're constantly focusing on what's not working, what's not working is just going to get bigger and bigger."
- Tracy Otsuka
- Tracy explains how people attribute causes to their failures, with harmful attributions including internal, stable, and global beliefs that lead to learned helplessness.
- Tracy discusses how Marcus's improved grades in math were due to his changing mindset, realizing he's not bad at math, and starting to show his work.
- Tracy applies this to ADHD women, highlighting the impact of negative self-talk and pessimism on their potential, and the importance of recognizing and challenging these thoughts.
[09:24 - 23:57] ADHD, Creativity, and Mindset
- Tracy shares an example of how she second-guessed her own judgment due to learned helplessness, despite recognizing that the New York Times article was poorly written.
- Tracy emphasizes the importance of focusing on strengths and accomplishments to build confidence and forgetting negative experiences.
- Tracy discusses the importance of a growth mindset for individuals with ADHD, citing Carol Dweck's research.
[23:57 - 37:20] Growth Mindset and ADHD
- Tracy shares her experiences with ADHD and how it has shaped her work ethic and optimism.
- Tracy shares her experience with a growth mindset and ADHD, emphasizing the importance of taking control of one's life and working towards improvement.
- Tracy highlights the limitations of traditional planning and organizational systems for nonlinear brains, and the need to find what works best for individual cognitive styles.
