Learned Helplessness

Learned Helplessness, developed by Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman. This theory, backed up by years of research, is that a great deal of depression grows out of a feeling of helplessness: the feeling that you cannot control your environment.

The more you feel that you can control your environment, and that the things you do are actually working, the happier you are. When you find yourself frustrated, angry, and upset, it’s probably because of something that happened that you could not control. – Quoted from Joel Spolsky

At times I’ll find myself whistling, humming a happy melody on the way to work, and I couldn’t wait until I get my hands start punching away the keyboard working on the program I stopped half way yesterday. On the contrary, at times I feel like a deadman dragging myself to the office, and THAT is the time I wouldn’t be productive at all the whole damn day, surfing forums, reading blogs, chatting and ranting about life and shit.

I just realized I’ve this Learned Helplessness after reading Joel’s article. The time when I’m so eager to goto work, there must be a program that I’m very eager to look into it; The time when I’m like a dead living corpse, it’s when I hit some damn program bugs ( or debug SAP standard ) which I’ve been debugging for the whole day and couldn’t find a solution.

So by knowing myself better, I know how to farking deal with it when I came across myself acting the way I shouldn’t be. =]

Okie…back to debugging…

P/S: I hate IE and user exits. Cheers.