That’s really disappointing and surprising that so few practitioners seem to check back and validate if the breakthroughs hold.
It also seems like a tremendous lost opportunity because even if a breakthrough lasts or isn’t flaky, there’s no reason to believe it has maximized returns—checking in with former clients and reviewing could mean there is further optimization, further juice to be squeezed out even if at first the technique that caused the breakthrough was effective.
This also begs the question in my mind what differentiates a breakthrough from a “insight”, or even from a illusory moment of bliss that is mistaken for a meaningful breakthrough. In terms of insight: I’m thinking about insightful and potentially useful broad statements about the causes or patterns of a client’s negative behavior “You tie too much self-worth to hours worked, and not output produced” but doesn’t prescribe a list of techniques or a method for rewiring or changing that behavior. The observation may be true and could probably guide how to produce a remedy method, but it is not the method itself. Yet, for a client, hearing that they may have this profound sense of unblockage coming from the revelation, and an elation even that may be mistaken for breaking through.
Edit: I just realized I forgot to say—I thoroughly enjoyed reading this post.
That’s really disappointing and surprising that so few practitioners seem to check back and validate if the breakthroughs hold.
It also seems like a tremendous lost opportunity because even if a breakthrough lasts or isn’t flaky, there’s no reason to believe it has maximized returns—checking in with former clients and reviewing could mean there is further optimization, further juice to be squeezed out even if at first the technique that caused the breakthrough was effective.
This also begs the question in my mind what differentiates a breakthrough from a “insight”, or even from a illusory moment of bliss that is mistaken for a meaningful breakthrough. In terms of insight: I’m thinking about insightful and potentially useful broad statements about the causes or patterns of a client’s negative behavior “You tie too much self-worth to hours worked, and not output produced” but doesn’t prescribe a list of techniques or a method for rewiring or changing that behavior. The observation may be true and could probably guide how to produce a remedy method, but it is not the method itself. Yet, for a client, hearing that they may have this profound sense of unblockage coming from the revelation, and an elation even that may be mistaken for breaking through.
Edit: I just realized I forgot to say—I thoroughly enjoyed reading this post.