found more than once that when i find smth that might really help (oh this paper is precisely about the problem i've been having!) i postpone engaging with it... almsot as if had grown accustomed to the mode of 'there being a problem' and face resistance to moving on from it...
Conversation
the old CFARians used to say "it's okay for your problems to be solvable"
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in the early days CFAR was like "oh we will just come up with and iterate on techniques and then give the best techniques to people this is going to be great"
and then we ran into load-bearing problems and meta-problems and feelings about problems and feelings about techniques
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~turns out people are complicated welp~
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but it was good, this is not exactly a criticism, like CFAR people were voracious about stealing other people's stuff and that's how i heard about focusing and IFS and that was real real good
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it was valuable confirmation! i got a lot out of being around a bunch of people who were trying to reason about minds in a practical way, unconstrained by academic dogma, iterating on their models, etc. and trying to do the same