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> if you learn things from therapy that improve your life then i guess it has worked. To give a very "Hacker-Newish" snappy remark: So, if the therapy teaches
by aleph_minus_one 2y ago
> if you learn things from therapy that improve your life then i guess it has worked.
To give a very "Hacker-Newish" snappy remark:
So, if the therapy teaches you programming, and you thus get a much better job improving your life, you'd claim that "learn to program" is a suitable therapy? ;-)
- bawolff 2y agoI'd add the caveat that therapy is supposed to be meta (teach you about yourself). Learning to program isn't therapy. Learning how to learn to program might be.
- aleph_minus_one 2y ago> I'd add the caveat that therapy is supposed to be meta (teach you about yourself). Then learning to program is therapy. :-D I am serious: Learning (very abstract) mathematics, and programming, taught me an insane amount about myself: - how I attempt to model and structure the world - how better models of very diverse phenomena look like - what such insights mean for my life - ...
- drewcoo 2y ago>> I'd add the caveat that therapy is supposed to be meta (teach you about yourself). > Then learning to program is therapy. Are you trying to say that learning to program is not learning logic?
- theGnuMe 2y agoIn the sense that you learned to reprogram your mind.