My Takeaways From 12 Months Of Therapy

Re:My Takeaways From 12 Months Of Therapy by aleph_minus_one on Saturday January 04, 2025 @08:10AM (#42594483)

> if you learn things from therapy that improve your life then i guess it has worked.

To give a very "Hacker-Newish" snappy remark:

So, if the therapy teaches you programming, and you thus get a much better job improving your life, you'd claim that "learn to program" is a suitable therapy? ;-)

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Re:My Takeaways From 12 Months Of Therapy by bawolff on Saturday January 04, 2025 @08:25AM (#42594561)

I'd add the caveat that therapy is supposed to be meta (teach you about yourself).

Learning to program isn't therapy. Learning how to learn to program might be.

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Re:My Takeaways From 12 Months Of Therapy by aleph_minus_one on Saturday January 04, 2025 @08:53AM (#42594671)

> I'd add the caveat that therapy is supposed to be meta (teach you about yourself).

Then learning to program is therapy. :-D

I am serious: Learning (very abstract) mathematics, and programming, taught me an insane amount about myself:

- how I attempt to model and structure the world

- how better models of very diverse phenomena look like

- what such insights mean for my life

- ...

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Re:My Takeaways From 12 Months Of Therapy by drewcoo on Saturday January 04, 2025 @09:33PM (#42599286)

>> I'd add the caveat that therapy is supposed to be meta (teach you about yourself).

> Then learning to program is therapy.

Are you trying to say that learning to program is not learning logic?

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Re:My Takeaways From 12 Months Of Therapy by theGnuMe on Saturday January 04, 2025 @10:13AM (#42595159)

In the sense that you learned to reprogram your mind.

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