If you listen to David Burns, then learning these skills needs deliberate practice with explicit feedback on skills like empathy. Most psychotherapist cultures just don’t have that. Copying psychologist culture doesn’t get you the those kind of skills.
If we would want to follow what Burns says, it would make more sense to have a culture where after you meet with another rationalists both of you fill out feedback forms where they rate each other empathy in the conversation and maybe a few other metrics.
I don’t see what’s difficult about having a norm of just telling people when they’re not understanding you/not seemingly trying, and caring about that?
If you listen to David Burns, then learning these skills needs deliberate practice with explicit feedback on skills like empathy. Most psychotherapist cultures just don’t have that. Copying psychologist culture doesn’t get you the those kind of skills.
If we would want to follow what Burns says, it would make more sense to have a culture where after you meet with another rationalists both of you fill out feedback forms where they rate each other empathy in the conversation and maybe a few other metrics.
I don’t see what’s difficult about having a norm of just telling people when they’re not understanding you/not seemingly trying, and caring about that?