I have spoken with two people in the community who felt they didn’t have anyone to turn to who would not throw rationalist type techniques at them when they were experiencing mental health problems. The fix it attitude is fairly toxic for many common situations.
If I could wave a magic wand it would be for everyone to gain the knowledge that learning and implementing new analytical techniques cost spoons, and when a person is bleeding spoons in front of you you need a different strategy.
If I could wave a magic wand it would be for everyone to gain the knowledge that learning and implementing new analytical techniques cost spoons, and when a person is bleeding spoons in front of you you need a different strategy.
I strongly agree with this, and I hadn’t heard anyone articulate it quite this explicitly—thank you. I also like the idea of there being more focus on helping EAs with mental health problems or life struggles where the advice isn’t always “use this CFAR technique.”
(I think CFAR are great and a lot of their techniques are really useful. But I’ve also spent a bunch of time feeling bad the fact that I don’t seem able to learn and implement these techniques in the way many other people seem to, and it’s taken me a long time to realise that trying to ‘figure out’ how to fix my problems in a very analytical way is very often not what I need.)
I have spoken with two people in the community who felt they didn’t have anyone to turn to who would not throw rationalist type techniques at them when they were experiencing mental health problems. The fix it attitude is fairly toxic for many common situations.
If I could wave a magic wand it would be for everyone to gain the knowledge that learning and implementing new analytical techniques cost spoons, and when a person is bleeding spoons in front of you you need a different strategy.
I strongly agree with this, and I hadn’t heard anyone articulate it quite this explicitly—thank you. I also like the idea of there being more focus on helping EAs with mental health problems or life struggles where the advice isn’t always “use this CFAR technique.”
(I think CFAR are great and a lot of their techniques are really useful. But I’ve also spent a bunch of time feeling bad the fact that I don’t seem able to learn and implement these techniques in the way many other people seem to, and it’s taken me a long time to realise that trying to ‘figure out’ how to fix my problems in a very analytical way is very often not what I need.)