Huh -- I'd be interested to hear how the topic projected into a therapeutic session, if you'd care to share.

I had a therapist recommend doing something like this for my fiction diet. That relates somehow, but I'm struggling to describe it.

k00b

We should all require more evidence for convenient opinions than inconvenient ones.

, but it's easy to forget the heart of the idea is that it's 

.  You're not out there dicking around at stuff you're great at and having fun, you're mindfully working on weaknesses, trying to find the frontier of your abilities.

There's something about that attitude that's telling.  If your media diet is like slipping into a warm bath, that's a warning.  It doesn't matter if it's a warm bath of outrage, if it's that familiar vibe that already holds your shape, beware.

At least, beware if your goal is to understand anything complex.

mostly_harmless

Fooling yourself

elvismercury

> We should all require more evidence for convenient opinions than inconvenient ones.

By now everyone has heard the term _deliberate practice_, but it's easy to forget the heart of the idea is that it's _uncomfortable_.  You're not out there dicking around at stuff you're great at and having fun, you're mindfully working on weaknesses, trying to find the frontier of your abilities.

There's something about that attitude that's telling.  If your media diet is like slipping into a warm bath, that's a warning.  It doesn't matter if it's a warm bath of outrage, if it's that familiar vibe that already holds your shape, beware.  

At least, beware if your goal is to understand anything complex.