There are a lot of different personal development paradigms (or as romeostevensit calls them psychotechnologies). Most of them do I have effects even if they aren’t as valuable as their proponents assert.
If only have the distinction of “this is either very useful” and “it’s bullshit” you are unlikely to engage well with subjects like this.
Some paradigms are developed in English and others in other languages. There’s no inherent reason to assume that English-born systems are better but an inability to access primary sources makes it a lot harder to learn paradigms that were developed in other languages and cultures.
The fact that psychonetics seems to come out of a Russian-speaking academic discourse, suggests that they likely figured out a bit about the phenomena they studied. On the other hand, having much of the literature unavailable in English (or other languages you speak) is a bad sign for studying it in depth.
Whenever I ask questions like “Is this bullshit or not”, I’m not expecting a simple binary yes/no answer and it’s meant to be shorthand for a question which is similar but longer and harder to word and asking for a more complex, specified answer.
Right now, I’m mostly taking a look at the thing I looked, and when and if (big if) I get far enough, I’ll try to get Russian acquaintances to help me look into it further.
Curious about other personal development paradigms/psychotechnologies. So far I’ve mostly been trying to follow the book the Mind Illuminated and dabbling in feedbackloop-first rationality and tuning cognitive strategies.
There are a lot of different personal development paradigms (or as romeostevensit calls them psychotechnologies). Most of them do I have effects even if they aren’t as valuable as their proponents assert.
If only have the distinction of “this is either very useful” and “it’s bullshit” you are unlikely to engage well with subjects like this.
Some paradigms are developed in English and others in other languages. There’s no inherent reason to assume that English-born systems are better but an inability to access primary sources makes it a lot harder to learn paradigms that were developed in other languages and cultures.
The fact that psychonetics seems to come out of a Russian-speaking academic discourse, suggests that they likely figured out a bit about the phenomena they studied. On the other hand, having much of the literature unavailable in English (or other languages you speak) is a bad sign for studying it in depth.
Whenever I ask questions like “Is this bullshit or not”, I’m not expecting a simple binary yes/no answer and it’s meant to be shorthand for a question which is similar but longer and harder to word and asking for a more complex, specified answer.
Right now, I’m mostly taking a look at the thing I looked, and when and if (big if) I get far enough, I’ll try to get Russian acquaintances to help me look into it further.
Curious about other personal development paradigms/psychotechnologies. So far I’ve mostly been trying to follow the book the Mind Illuminated and dabbling in feedbackloop-first rationality and tuning cognitive strategies.