My wife and I are the high school youth leaders at a UU church. Most of our youths are atheists or agnostics. I looked over the page you linked and subsequent pages on the course itself as I am very interested in helping our youths to think more rationally about goals. As the course is outlined now I would not suggest it to our youths because:
a) The course requires a lot of time and there’s not enough information about how that time can be broken up. We meet for two hours per week and could maybe spare an hour of that for a program, but it’s not clear that it can be broken up like that. Also, there’s no way they would agree to do this for 7 weeks anyway. An abbreviated course that involved 2 or 3 1 hour sessions with maybe 20-30 minutes of homework in between sessions would be more realistic for our group. Most of our youths are very competitive academically and do not have lots of spare time to do stuff.
b) I have no idea what you’re suggesting the youths should be taught because all the actual content is hidden behind the registration. Given that I see no way to get the youths to agree to the course (because of the time thing above), I am not inclined to hand over personal information to get details about the courses actual content.
We have specifically UU-themed content here. For a one-hour session, I suggest using the videotaped workshop. You can have youth take the web app beforehand, watch the video, and then have a discussion, with youth taking the web app afterward.
We’re also working on developing other UU-themed curricula for youth-oriented classes and covenant groups.
It really seems like you have gone out of your way to not actually share any content until I give you personal information. After looking at a few of your pages I still have no idea what you’re offering except that it’s something to help people find meaning in their lives using methods that (probably) have one or more scientific study to back them up. This is the kind of sales pitch I usually associate very strongly with scammers. The main differences between the way you look and the way a scammer looks are:
a) I found your recommendations on Less Wrong and you are an academic at an accredited university
b) You are charging very little for your material by requiring time watching videos, contact information, or nominal fees (~$2-$3)
If you’re open to it, I would suggest writing up a summary or description of what your methods actually are (or if you have such a thing already, prominently link it somewhere). Generally, if you’re unwilling to make your methods known to this community it looks like you’re not really open to feedback or criticism about them.
My wife and I are the high school youth leaders at a UU church. Most of our youths are atheists or agnostics. I looked over the page you linked and subsequent pages on the course itself as I am very interested in helping our youths to think more rationally about goals. As the course is outlined now I would not suggest it to our youths because:
a) The course requires a lot of time and there’s not enough information about how that time can be broken up. We meet for two hours per week and could maybe spare an hour of that for a program, but it’s not clear that it can be broken up like that. Also, there’s no way they would agree to do this for 7 weeks anyway. An abbreviated course that involved 2 or 3 1 hour sessions with maybe 20-30 minutes of homework in between sessions would be more realistic for our group. Most of our youths are very competitive academically and do not have lots of spare time to do stuff.
b) I have no idea what you’re suggesting the youths should be taught because all the actual content is hidden behind the registration. Given that I see no way to get the youths to agree to the course (because of the time thing above), I am not inclined to hand over personal information to get details about the courses actual content.
I hope this helps.
I gotcha, thanks for the feedback!
We have specifically UU-themed content here. For a one-hour session, I suggest using the videotaped workshop. You can have youth take the web app beforehand, watch the video, and then have a discussion, with youth taking the web app afterward.
We’re also working on developing other UU-themed curricula for youth-oriented classes and covenant groups.
Hope this is useful for you!
Thanks, Gleb. I will look into this more.
It really seems like you have gone out of your way to not actually share any content until I give you personal information. After looking at a few of your pages I still have no idea what you’re offering except that it’s something to help people find meaning in their lives using methods that (probably) have one or more scientific study to back them up. This is the kind of sales pitch I usually associate very strongly with scammers. The main differences between the way you look and the way a scammer looks are:
a) I found your recommendations on Less Wrong and you are an academic at an accredited university b) You are charging very little for your material by requiring time watching videos, contact information, or nominal fees (~$2-$3)
If you’re open to it, I would suggest writing up a summary or description of what your methods actually are (or if you have such a thing already, prominently link it somewhere). Generally, if you’re unwilling to make your methods known to this community it looks like you’re not really open to feedback or criticism about them.
I have lots of free content on this topic that does not require sharing personal information, for example here: http://intentionalinsights.org/findyourpurpose
You can download a free version of my book (minus the worksheets), without sharing any personal information here: http://intentionalinsights.org/book-find-your-purpose-using-science
Let me know if other stuff would be helpful for you.