It’s really interesting to see how many bits of what’s in this handbook match important skills I either use with my clients or teach them to do. Focusing and Inner Simulation, obviously. But also bits of Socratic Ducking and Polaris. (On the other hand, I have reservations with some parts of IDC and “Understanding Shoulds”, in that most of the time, the problems I help people overcome are rooted in utterly useless shoulds that they are taking far too seriously, not in the desires they’re failing to take seriously enough.)
Quick question though: what is the copyright and/or licensing status of this document? (It also appears to be using copyrighted artwork from various outside sources, such as xkcd, without even crediting those creators, let alone affirming their copyrights.)
As for the Understanding Shoulds section, that’s another example of the document being tailor-made for a specific target audience; most people are indeed “taking far too seriously” their “utterly useless shoulds,” but the CFAR workshop audience was largely one pendulum swing ahead of that state, and needing the next round of iterated advice.
Emailing CFAR is the best way to find out; previously the question wasn’t considered in depth because “well, we’re not selling it, and we’re also not sharing it.” Now, the state is “well, they’re not selling it, but they are sharing it,” so it’s unclear.
(Things like the XKCD comic being uncited came about because in context, something like 95% of participants recognized XKCD immediately and the other 5% were told in person when lecturers said stuff like “If you’ll look at the XKCD comic on page whatever...” In other words, it was treated much more like an internal handout shared among a narrowly selected, high-context group, than as product that needed to dot all of the i’s and cross all of the t’s. I agree that Randall Munroe deserves credit for his work, and that future edits would likely correct things like that.)
It’s really interesting to see how many bits of what’s in this handbook match important skills I either use with my clients or teach them to do. Focusing and Inner Simulation, obviously. But also bits of Socratic Ducking and Polaris. (On the other hand, I have reservations with some parts of IDC and “Understanding Shoulds”, in that most of the time, the problems I help people overcome are rooted in utterly useless shoulds that they are taking far too seriously, not in the desires they’re failing to take seriously enough.)
Quick question though: what is the copyright and/or licensing status of this document? (It also appears to be using copyrighted artwork from various outside sources, such as xkcd, without even crediting those creators, let alone affirming their copyrights.)
As for the Understanding Shoulds section, that’s another example of the document being tailor-made for a specific target audience; most people are indeed “taking far too seriously” their “utterly useless shoulds,” but the CFAR workshop audience was largely one pendulum swing ahead of that state, and needing the next round of iterated advice.
Emailing CFAR is the best way to find out; previously the question wasn’t considered in depth because “well, we’re not selling it, and we’re also not sharing it.” Now, the state is “well, they’re not selling it, but they are sharing it,” so it’s unclear.
(Things like the XKCD comic being uncited came about because in context, something like 95% of participants recognized XKCD immediately and the other 5% were told in person when lecturers said stuff like “If you’ll look at the XKCD comic on page whatever...” In other words, it was treated much more like an internal handout shared among a narrowly selected, high-context group, than as product that needed to dot all of the i’s and cross all of the t’s. I agree that Randall Munroe deserves credit for his work, and that future edits would likely correct things like that.)