I like this post’s idea, and reversing the causal arrow. Most people think that life philosophy causes life outcome, so they look for the right life philosophy, but if it were the opposite you should be chasing the life outcome, and then you will end up with the life philosophy.
I don’t get the first two paragraphs at all, though. Are you trying to say that Sapphire was doing something that everyone could learn how to do, but disguised it behind a mystic pretense, and that was bad? I don’t think I fully get how it ties into the rest of the post (although I haven’t seen the show, so I may be missing something).
I think what I’m getting at is a desire for better self-awareness in people giving advice. I think it’s fine to give the alternative, brute force methodology version (step-by-step philosophy to happiness / probability theory) as a way to artifically make up for it in the absence of the original way of acquiring the skill (of happiness / future vision). So I think what Saphire’s doing is fine, except if it’s under the pretense that that’s how you actual acquired the skill in the first place, which I think reflects lack of self awareness.
I like this post’s idea, and reversing the causal arrow. Most people think that life philosophy causes life outcome, so they look for the right life philosophy, but if it were the opposite you should be chasing the life outcome, and then you will end up with the life philosophy.
I don’t get the first two paragraphs at all, though. Are you trying to say that Sapphire was doing something that everyone could learn how to do, but disguised it behind a mystic pretense, and that was bad? I don’t think I fully get how it ties into the rest of the post (although I haven’t seen the show, so I may be missing something).
I think what I’m getting at is a desire for better self-awareness in people giving advice. I think it’s fine to give the alternative, brute force methodology version (step-by-step philosophy to happiness / probability theory) as a way to artifically make up for it in the absence of the original way of acquiring the skill (of happiness / future vision). So I think what Saphire’s doing is fine, except if it’s under the pretense that that’s how you actual acquired the skill in the first place, which I think reflects lack of self awareness.