Thanks for the reply. I wanted to get at something slightly different, though.
I think that a key insight of traditions that work with “judgmentless/reactionless noticing” is that we humans tend to be “obsessive” problem solvers that are prone to getting tangled up in their own attempts at problem solving. Sometimes trying to solve problems can actually become the problem. On some level, I appreciate that your techniques may actually help to guard against this but on another level I wonder if this may be bought at the price of becoming boxed into a restrictive problem solving mindset that is unable to notice its own limitations.
Just throwing this out there and wondering what reactions this turns up.
Yeah I do concretely think one needs to guard against being an obsessive problem solver… but, also, there are some big problems that gotta get solved and while there are downsides and risks I mostly think “yep, I’m basically here to ~obsessive problem solve.” (even if I’ll try to be reasonable about it and encourage others to as well)
(To be clear, psychologically unhealthy or counterproductive obsessions with problem solving are bad. But if I have to choose between accidentally veering towards that too much or too little, I’m choosing too much)
Thanks for the reply. I wanted to get at something slightly different, though.
I think that a key insight of traditions that work with “judgmentless/reactionless noticing” is that we humans tend to be “obsessive” problem solvers that are prone to getting tangled up in their own attempts at problem solving. Sometimes trying to solve problems can actually become the problem. On some level, I appreciate that your techniques may actually help to guard against this but on another level I wonder if this may be bought at the price of becoming boxed into a restrictive problem solving mindset that is unable to notice its own limitations.
Just throwing this out there and wondering what reactions this turns up.
Yeah I do concretely think one needs to guard against being an obsessive problem solver… but, also, there are some big problems that gotta get solved and while there are downsides and risks I mostly think “yep, I’m basically here to ~obsessive problem solve.” (even if I’ll try to be reasonable about it and encourage others to as well)
(To be clear, psychologically unhealthy or counterproductive obsessions with problem solving are bad. But if I have to choose between accidentally veering towards that too much or too little, I’m choosing too much)