<p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft" alt="Robert Ringer - speaker &#038; author" title="Robert Ringer - speaker and author" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/robert-ringer.jpg" />As every straight-thinking adult knows, a faulty belief system — i.e., a belief system based on false premises — leads to bad consequences. Perhaps the best example of this is a person who is caught up in the Victimization Trap.</p>
<p>It’s a trap that mentally paralyzes the afflicted person, because he comes to believe the deck has been stacked against him. Such a misguided individual tends to see himself as a helpless victim of an unjust world, which has the effect of removing the incentive to try to improve his life. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2013/12/success-lesson-beware-the-victimization-trap-by-robert-ringer/" title="Permanent Link: Success Lesson: Beware the Victimization Trap By Robert Ringer" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":2029,"date":"2013-12-26T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2023-03-13T22:48:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T03:48:42","slug":"success-lesson-beware-the-victimization-trap-by-robert-ringer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2013\/12\/success-lesson-beware-the-victimization-trap-by-robert-ringer\/","title":{"rendered":"Success Lesson: Beware the Victimization Trap By Robert Ringer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Robert Ringer - speaker &#038; author\" title=\"Robert Ringer - speaker and author\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/robert-ringer.jpg\" \/>As every straight-thinking adult knows, a faulty belief system \u2014 i.e., a belief system based on false premises \u2014 leads to bad consequences. Perhaps the best example of this is a person who is caught up in the Victimization Trap.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a trap that mentally paralyzes the afflicted person, because he comes to believe the deck has been stacked against him. Such a misguided individual tends to see himself as a helpless victim of an unjust world, which has the effect of removing the incentive to try to improve his life. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2013\/12\/success-lesson-beware-the-victimization-trap-by-robert-ringer\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Success Lesson: Beware the Victimization Trap By Robert Ringer\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}