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NancyLebovitz comments on [link] "The Happiness Code" - New York Times on CFAR - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 19 January 2016 09:50:56AM 1 point [-]

I read the comments at the NYT-- part of the issue is people pattern-matching to est and part of it was sticker shock at the price. I don't know whether there's anything to be done to the similarity to est (basically that it's a very intense workshop, even though there's no upselling). I'm curious about whether offering it as a series of six-hour one-day workshops would be a bad idea.

There were also a bunch of people who said it wasn't different from CBT or someusch. I think the price is less than a year's worth of therapy, and I wonder how the results compare.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 19 January 2016 05:44:17PM 3 points [-]

est?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 19 January 2016 05:57:26PM 1 point [-]

EST-- a human potential system with expensive, intense workshops.

How quickly things change-- EST was very well-known in its time, but you're not the only person I've talked with who'd never heard of it.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 20 January 2016 08:27:30AM 0 points [-]

Might also be a cultural thing - the Wikipedia articles gives me the impression it was more known in the US than in Europe. There's only one non-English version of the article.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 20 January 2016 02:57:29PM 0 points [-]

It might be cultural, but the other person who hadn't heard of it is American, and only about 15 years younger than I am.