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Generalising particular failures into 'I am bad at everything' is the route from lost motivation to clinical depression.

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motivation What makes effort feel worth it: the neuroscience of wanting to act, apathy, dopamine, and habit.

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  1. Masud Husain Professor of Neurology at the University of Oxford
    if you do for some reason generalize maladaptively to thinking this didn't work and I tried this, this didn't work, and I tried this and I'm really bad at this. That can lead not only to loss of motivation, but what we might call clinical depression.

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