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What might be throwing off some of the commenters here: You're using language like "personal growth" and "inner work" to describe what just sounds to be profes
by swatcoder 5y ago
What might be throwing off some of the commenters here:
You're using language like "personal growth" and "inner work" to describe what just sounds to be professional development.
Maybe professional capacity and personal identity are all tied up for you. That's certainly true for a lot of people here, including myself sometimes. But it's also maybe just an echo of working so long in an industry that tried to sell one as the other. It reads as an extraordinarily narrow perspective in world where we only work for a few decades and only with about 25% of our time during those decades.
If you're genuinely interested in personal growth and inner work, consider stepping back from the professional space as you look for programs. And if you're just interested in professional development in your craft, consider using language that's more specifically associated with it.
- verisimi 5y agoYes. And it says something else again when one cannot even distinguish different professional approaches and moral/ethical/spiritual development. Edit for an Orwell quote on Newspeak: The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron—they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of The Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like Freedom is Slavery when the concept of freedom has been abolished?
- hugohamelcom 5y agoI agree and that's definitively a good point.