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Anyone around here familiar with Stoicism and/or cognitive-behavioural therapy? I am reading this book and it seems vaguely like it would be of relevance to this site. Especially the focus of training the mind to make something of a habit like questioning whether something is ultimately in our control or not.
Also, I am kind of sad that there is nothing around here like a self-study guide that is easily accessible for the public.
And finally, I am confused again and again why there are so many posts about epistemic rationality and so few about instrumental rationality. The former helps me less to win than the latter. Or maybe I am wrong about the purpose of this site.
Post post scriptum: In light of current revelations about the NSA I would be very happy about this site offering https to protect passwords and to obfuscate the specific viewed content.
I feel the same way about stoicism as I do about Buddhism, there's some good stuff but its hard to separate out from the accumulated mystical detritus. The advantage of modern psychology is it tends to include the empirically supported parts of these traditions.
As for CBT, I've personally had extremely good experience with Introducing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: A Practical Guide.