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== Key Claims == | == Key Claims == | ||
| − | * [[Aristotle says that one needs an image of kalon to have virtuous action]] | + | * [[Aristotle says that one needs an image of ''kalon'' to have virtuous action.]] |
| − | * | + | * Image of ''kalon'' is what behavioral psychology calls ideals (values). |
| − | * | + | * Ideals of behavioral therapy and virtues of positive psychology are the same reality, viewed from a different perspective (goal vs habit, respectively). |
| − | * | + | * Ideals show us how to best engage a challenge. |
| − | * | + | * Ideals are the way we can reframe any challenge. |
| − | * | + | * Acting on ideals (patience) makes a given trigger progressively less triggering over time (produces habituation of triggered response). |
| − | * | + | * Acting on ideals produces virtuous cycles. Patience makes this possible. |
| − | * | + | * Meaning, mastery and pleasure are the outcomes of engaging virtuous cycles. |
| − | * | + | * Acting against ideals produces vicious cycles. |
| − | * | + | * Negative self-concepts, automation, and discomfort are the outcomes of engaging vicious cycles. |
| − | * | + | * Virtuous cycles are reinforced by the reward of practicing ideals (“virtues are their own reward”, positive reinforcement). |
| − | * | + | * Vicious cycles are reinforced by the relief of giving in (negative reinforcement). |
| − | * | + | * Patience is the willingness to suffer discomfort as you practice your ideals. Impatience is unwillingness for the same. |
* [[Patience is the breaker of every vicious cycle.]] | * [[Patience is the breaker of every vicious cycle.]] | ||
| − | * | + | * Patience paradoxically reduces suffering, which habituates as reward increases. |
| − | * | + | * Patience allows the same triggers to be used for engaging ideals rather than avoiding emotions. |
| − | == Q&A claims | + | == Q&A claims == |
| − | * | + | * Higher anxiety levels produces better results of exposure therapy. |
| − | * | + | * You only can retrain the amygdala while the alarm is sounding. |
| − | * | + | * Interoceptive exposure (feeling the anxiety itself) produces the most generalized benefits for exposure therapy. |
| − | * | + | * Tiredness responds to habituation and sensitization the same as anxiety. Example is “second wind” effect in running. Tiredness may be the same thing as anxiety. |
| − | * | + | * Aiming to get a habituation curve for anxiety to “0” is counterproductive. |
| − | * | + | * The way to have the greatest sensitization of a trigger is a thwarted attempt to escape it. |
| − | * | + | * Habituation cannot take place in context of thwarted escape. |
Latest revision as of 14:13, 1 June 2020
Key Claims
- Aristotle says that one needs an image of ''kalon'' to have virtuous action.
- Image of kalon is what behavioral psychology calls ideals (values).
- Ideals of behavioral therapy and virtues of positive psychology are the same reality, viewed from a different perspective (goal vs habit, respectively).
- Ideals show us how to best engage a challenge.
- Ideals are the way we can reframe any challenge.
- Acting on ideals (patience) makes a given trigger progressively less triggering over time (produces habituation of triggered response).
- Acting on ideals produces virtuous cycles. Patience makes this possible.
- Meaning, mastery and pleasure are the outcomes of engaging virtuous cycles.
- Acting against ideals produces vicious cycles.
- Negative self-concepts, automation, and discomfort are the outcomes of engaging vicious cycles.
- Virtuous cycles are reinforced by the reward of practicing ideals (“virtues are their own reward”, positive reinforcement).
- Vicious cycles are reinforced by the relief of giving in (negative reinforcement).
- Patience is the willingness to suffer discomfort as you practice your ideals. Impatience is unwillingness for the same.
- Patience is the breaker of every vicious cycle.
- Patience paradoxically reduces suffering, which habituates as reward increases.
- Patience allows the same triggers to be used for engaging ideals rather than avoiding emotions.
Q&A claims
- Higher anxiety levels produces better results of exposure therapy.
- You only can retrain the amygdala while the alarm is sounding.
- Interoceptive exposure (feeling the anxiety itself) produces the most generalized benefits for exposure therapy.
- Tiredness responds to habituation and sensitization the same as anxiety. Example is “second wind” effect in running. Tiredness may be the same thing as anxiety.
- Aiming to get a habituation curve for anxiety to “0” is counterproductive.
- The way to have the greatest sensitization of a trigger is a thwarted attempt to escape it.
- Habituation cannot take place in context of thwarted escape.
