Why I’m betting on doing both of these things at once: from my POV they’re basically one thing. And that one thing is: having a go at the world with everything we’ve got.
Yeah, to be clear, this is totally what I’m doing as well, and I strongly empathize with this sentence.
A better phrasing would not have been for me to challenge doing them at once, but rather to challenge learning them at once. Let me try to be concrete here. Some people have a level of stoicism or repression that means that they’ve almost never cried. For those people, getting to a level of emotional release that allows crying is a pretty important step towards emotional health. After that point, it’s pretty powerful for them to mix that skill with a simultaneous “orienting towards the world” move (as we both observed at LARC). But when I look through the classes listed in the CFAR handbook, almost all of them seem pretty structurally antithetical to “learning to cry”, because they are trying to get participants to absorb a primarily-epistemic frame.
(Though to be clear, I’m not saying that CFAR should be optimizing for making people cry. Running workshops where a lot of people cry is a risky endeavor. Again, it’s more about the meta-level question of how aCFAR orients to all the crazy powerful stuff lying around.)
When it comes to accomplishing cool stuff [the other half of being human, besides figuring out what’s true]
Not super important but wanted to flag that this feels like a very impoverished description of being human. There’s also, you know, having fun, loving others, relaxing, etc.
Yeah, to be clear, this is totally what I’m doing as well, and I strongly empathize with this sentence.
A better phrasing would not have been for me to challenge doing them at once, but rather to challenge learning them at once. Let me try to be concrete here. Some people have a level of stoicism or repression that means that they’ve almost never cried. For those people, getting to a level of emotional release that allows crying is a pretty important step towards emotional health. After that point, it’s pretty powerful for them to mix that skill with a simultaneous “orienting towards the world” move (as we both observed at LARC). But when I look through the classes listed in the CFAR handbook, almost all of them seem pretty structurally antithetical to “learning to cry”, because they are trying to get participants to absorb a primarily-epistemic frame.
(Though to be clear, I’m not saying that CFAR should be optimizing for making people cry. Running workshops where a lot of people cry is a risky endeavor. Again, it’s more about the meta-level question of how aCFAR orients to all the crazy powerful stuff lying around.)
Not super important but wanted to flag that this feels like a very impoverished description of being human. There’s also, you know, having fun, loving others, relaxing, etc.