How to counteract the learned helplessness of youth | Logan Bechanan | TEDxCorbin

Logan Bechanan tells the story of Appalachia: proud, storied, left behind and sometimes hopeless. He offers a hopeful path forward, by encouraging the region’s people to look within. Logan Bechanan is a student at the University of Kentucky and has a passion and vision for youth empowerment. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@apteryx01]

Summary: The problem is hopelessness. The answer is hope. He never tells how hopeless people can get hope.

[@raghavtalwar1373]

Perfect summary

[@v.dargain1678]

No he didn't . He just brought it to the audience's attention that the problem exists .

[@nodozhit]

Self-efficacy is the adverse to learned helplessness. And improving your own self-efficacy is like the one choice that you must decide alone- regardless of external factors. It's an individual's sole decision to be ready, willing, and able to challenge oneself to be better at producing results and accomplishing goals. And it's like nourishing a can do attitude that influences all aspects of your life- personal, professional, and public. Social media trolls and haters make it harder to reduce the stigma around learned helplessness because it is mostly negative feedback from the hopeless people shunning and sassing the helpful people that's actually trying to include and encourage the hapless people to join in something they are good at.

[@teacherfromthejungles6671]

you seek for an easy answer to a complex problem.

[@hugoantunesartwithblender]

Getting hope is so easy. If you start doing juggling, hope and believe is you believing you will be able to do with 5 balls

[@OldEarthWisdom]

This talk falls apart when it gets to the end and turns into another preacher's sermon.

[@EtherTheReal]

Think again, im sure you can draw even from the end part valuable conclusions for yourself.

[@grantmontgomery6763]

Put some batteries in those hearing aids and listen to the knowledge that is being spoken to you yung boi

[@xtkaythen]

@Kuffar Legion you have fully missed the message, and part of that is the speaker rushed the conclusion. You: "that is not self-this or self-that, or self-whatever, so how can it help?" The speaker: "The cornerstone of hope is faith." Conclusion: when you walk around in your house in the dark, you hope that everything is exactly where you remember. You are hoping that your house was not invaded by a murderer. You have faith in your memory. You have faith in the police, and the neighborhood. Without that faith, without that hope, you would not be able to walk around in the dark like that. You'd be too scared. And after some time, you would just stop going to that house. A higher power can be the police. It can be the millions of years of DNA evolution that gave you a memory. Without ANY outside forces leading you forward through metaphorical darkness, you will become lost. And you WILL give up on becoming found. Either there is a way that comes from outside of you, or there is no way. You are not the universe, and that means you must accept something other than yourself. And if you want something good for yourself, you have to HOPE that it will be permitted by The Other.

[@v.dargain1678]

I don't see his lecture as a reproof of current social reality as much as it is a call to attention the declining continuity of the familiar .

[@shivanikuhikar1092]

Good talk👍

[@v.dargain1678]

True . And a very peculiar one to be coming from a millenial i.e. learned helplessness .

[@0ptimal]

That's a great song

[@findingthetruth25]

Didn't connect with what the message was supposed to be. A collection of anecdotes very tenuously connected to what learned helplessness is, ending with "the answer is ... my town has religion". OK... and what? Unless he is pitching for us to move there, I did not understand the point.

[@danikinzstar]

6:38 you just lost me.

[@teacherfromthejungles6671]

I didn't get his talk AT ALL.

[@yashyadav-iz5un]

I thought i M the only who didnt get him