Donald Robertson

But getting people to think about the pros and cons of these different strategies is When might it be a good idea? When it might potentially backfire? Is there a good way of doing mindfulness? And maybe there's a bad way of doing mindfulness in some situations. That's the wisdom that allows people.

The ancient philosophers used to also say if you could give somebody the problem of teaching moral precepts or like coping strategies.

The ancient philosophers used to also say if you could give somebody the problem of teaching moral precepts or like coping strategies.

The ancient philosophers used to also say if you could give somebody the problem of teaching moral precepts or like coping strategies.

you know would be that if you give a piece of advice a maxim to someone who's wise they'll use it wisely but if you give it to someone who's foolish they're probably going to use it foolishly right if you give coping strategies to somebody who's got severe anxiety they're they're more likely just to turn it into a form of avoidance if you're not careful and

you know would be that if you give a piece of advice a maxim to someone who's wise they'll use it wisely but if you give it to someone who's foolish they're probably going to use it foolishly right if you give coping strategies to somebody who's got severe anxiety they're they're more likely just to turn it into a form of avoidance if you're not careful and

you know would be that if you give a piece of advice a maxim to someone who's wise they'll use it wisely but if you give it to someone who's foolish they're probably going to use it foolishly right if you give coping strategies to somebody who's got severe anxiety they're they're more likely just to turn it into a form of avoidance if you're not careful and

The people who have the most severe problems are the ones that are most likely to misuse the type of strategies that we get in self-help books, basically. So what's often missing, I think, is this meta skill, if you like, of being able to choose between strategies and figure out their pros and cons, which is actually one of the first things we'd normally do in cognitive therapy.

The people who have the most severe problems are the ones that are most likely to misuse the type of strategies that we get in self-help books, basically. So what's often missing, I think, is this meta skill, if you like, of being able to choose between strategies and figure out their pros and cons, which is actually one of the first things we'd normally do in cognitive therapy.

The people who have the most severe problems are the ones that are most likely to misuse the type of strategies that we get in self-help books, basically. So what's often missing, I think, is this meta skill, if you like, of being able to choose between strategies and figure out their pros and cons, which is actually one of the first things we'd normally do in cognitive therapy.

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yes and no like generally speaking he didn't get directly involved in politics there was one incident where he was elected to a kind of

yes and no like generally speaking he didn't get directly involved in politics there was one incident where he was elected to a kind of

yes and no like generally speaking he didn't get directly involved in politics there was one incident where he was elected to a kind of

committee overseeing a trial um and socrates took a principled stand supposedly in a situation where the mob were kind of baying for the blood of a bunch of athenian generals that were on trial um and he almost was executed as a result of doing that but after that i think uh he said that look if i was to get involved in politics i'd just end up being killed

committee overseeing a trial um and socrates took a principled stand supposedly in a situation where the mob were kind of baying for the blood of a bunch of athenian generals that were on trial um and he almost was executed as a result of doing that but after that i think uh he said that look if i was to get involved in politics i'd just end up being killed

committee overseeing a trial um and socrates took a principled stand supposedly in a situation where the mob were kind of baying for the blood of a bunch of athenian generals that were on trial um and he almost was executed as a result of doing that but after that i think uh he said that look if i was to get involved in politics i'd just end up being killed

you know, because, you know, the stand that I would take would just, you know, in Athens at that time, one of our sources suggested his thinking was he just wouldn't last very long and it would be more constructive of him to kind of critique