I am wondering if there are commonalities between what different self-help things are doing. For example, it seems that a lot of self-help is focused on changing our default actions, ala debiasing, so there is a train of thought that starts with cognitive biases and goes from there.
There’s an element of “self subscription” to much of self help. Someone gathered advice or a strategy, now I need to try it.
A lot of problems are problems when the self does not want to work on them. A lot of the advice is about convincing the self to work on them.
Classic I. E. Dieting. The self wants to eat lots of food. Can’t just stop eating or they would have already done that. Needs some other way to be convinced to help them selves.
I am wondering if there are commonalities between what different self-help things are doing. For example, it seems that a lot of self-help is focused on changing our default actions, ala debiasing, so there is a train of thought that starts with cognitive biases and goes from there.
There’s an element of “self subscription” to much of self help. Someone gathered advice or a strategy, now I need to try it.
A lot of problems are problems when the self does not want to work on them. A lot of the advice is about convincing the self to work on them.
Classic I. E. Dieting. The self wants to eat lots of food. Can’t just stop eating or they would have already done that. Needs some other way to be convinced to help them selves.