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Essays on psychology, reality, and personal responsibility—from Konstantin Kunakh, a psychodynamic therapist with a skeptical mind and over a decade of practice
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49. Rational Rationality #2 (opens the original)
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In the previous post, I explained what rational means and why you should be rational. I showed how a conflict between instrumental and epistemic rationality reveals that the instrumental one is more important. Which is all great, except instrumental rationality isn’t a singular thing; by its definition of “systematically achieving your values,” it is value- or goal-oriented. And goals can be, and mostly are, conflicting. So how do you apply instrumental rationality in practice?Jack is in codepen
#48. Rational Rationality (opens the original)
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In counseling, the question of rational choices arises in the most uncomfortable moments. Just in the topics you’d want to avoid—dissecting your most significant relationships, your most painful conflicts—you end up with a task from your counselor to list the damages received in a relationship and measure them against the benefits. A lot of times, the client comes up with an objection: why do we apply a rational approach to an emotional problem? Shouldn’t relationships work on some kind of diffe
#47. Intrusiveness, Sales, and Projection (opens the original)
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Being a good salesman is a useful skill, whatever you do. As every beginner sales training explains, our whole life is a series of sales. You sell your work to your job, or your client, your opinion to your boss or wife, your point of view to the traffic cop, your plan to your children; the list goes on. Being able to understand how what you have can be presented to someone in a way that’ll make them want it enough to give you in exchange what you want is a gift that never stops giving. Which mi
#46. Metaphors in Counseling (opens the original)
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But we seem to be at an impasse here, don’t we? Jack already knows this story, and he already brought an answer—the first one: the story about bad luck, cruel fate, and an innocent girl who fell out of love. He even mustered some guilt over the assumption that it might’ve been the case that he didn’t do enough to keep her. But then again, he’s also the one who’s mad. He’s in what we call an incongruous position, showing parts of different, opposing attitudes: the thoughts say one thing, the feel
#45. Willful Ignorance (opens the original)
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37% of Americans don’t know that non-GMO food has genes in it. Antivaxxers are so unaware of what a vaccine is that they’ve made a full circle and unironically tend to offer that instead of “vaccines,” we’d introduce people to small amounts of disease to build “natural” immunity. Almost none of the religious Jews or Christians know there isn’t a shred of archaeological evidence that Jews ever were in Egypt, let alone escaped enslavement. Most political activists don’t know the first thing about
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