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RE: TRUMP - one truly good conversation
I've been digging these dialogues, and this one especially made me smile and think. The idea of scheduling special intervals each day to hate Trump is hilariously clever commentary! :D Also, thank you for making a video to go with it! I enjoyed your performance, and I spend so much time looking at screens that it was nice to have something I could sit back and listen to instead. Kudos!
Thank you so much for mentioning the paradoxical intervention. That is actually my favorite sentence in the whole dialogue and I am delighted that you see the value in it.
I learned this paradoxical method during my education and found it quite fascinating for intervention use. This has the name "using more of the same" and I was laughing a lot during our sessions and wanting to come up with special "more of the same" scenarios to give clients a perspective on their issues with one another. These new systemic approaches in consulting people remind me a great deal of asian wisdom and their narratives.
What the Trump hating schedule does is the following: You set your alarm and then start to hate intentionally the hated subject. In this course (preparing the alarm, intentionalizing the process etc.) it becomes clear that this act in itself is absurd. Which leads to further contemplation or reflection about the whole sensibility of hating a person. It already alters what comes to the conscious mind. It requires of course the willingness of the person who asks for advice to actively work on himself.
Isn't that wonderful?
Yeah, I also was hoping for being of service for the lazy reader or watcher.
Happy that we met!
I’m happy we met also! I’ve wasted more time than I’m proud to admit hating on people for ideological reasons. Eventually I came to realize how pointless and disheartening that is. It’s one thing to oppose an agenda or fight for a cause, but to just sit despising someone leads nowhere. Next time I catch myself doing that maybe I’ll set aside a hating schedule. :)
I made this promise to myself, too:)