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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Your
post led me to think of this: what things not even thought in the near
past do we have now that have no relationship to advances in science or
technology? In your post you mention life coaches. I think that's a
good example, but right off hand, I cannot think of any more. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I
assume a life coach is a generalist, not a specialist like people who
give advice on jobs or investments or buying a car. bill w</div></div></blockquote><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">I would say life coaching is actually a good example of a profession being enhanced by technology. It did exist before video calls and social media, but due to these innovations, life coaches can now connect with clients from around the world, and have an easier time growing their careers and making a living.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">A life coach is a generalist, but keep in mind that this is not a formally accredited field which is monitored/controlled by various government and private agencies, such as being a psychologist or social worker. Life coaches make it clear that they do not give psychological counseling for serious problems, but instead help basically healthy people set and achieve goals, and in general, get more out of their lives. The personal backgrounds of life coaches can vary hugely, and most training courses only take a few months, and cost anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. And again, they are not certified by a government agency for quality. I think people like going to life coaches, because of the focus on growth, the relative low cost, and the lack of stigma. I have an English life coach who is a prosperous and retired IT guy, who likes helping others now that he has made it, while the other one, is a relatively young African-American man who comes from a rough background, and has his own unique life perspectives. <br></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">I have played with the idea of perhaps someday becoming a life coach myself, most likely just as a part-time thing. And I might combine it with hypno-therapy, as a number of life coaches do. People seem to open up to me, anyway, so I think it might fit with my talents. The advantage of it is that it's very easy to get started, but at the same time, they lack the educational/professional skills and insights of trained psychologists or social workers. <br></font></div><div><font size="4"> <br></font></div><div><font size="4">John </font> <br></div>
</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 2:55 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Your post led me to think of this: what things not even thought in the near past do we have now that have no relationship to advances in science or technology? In your post you mention life coaches. I think that's a good example, but right off hand, I cannot think of any more. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I assume a life coach is a generalist, not a specialist like people who give advice on jobs or investments or buying a car. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 9:20 AM John Grigg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4">I have definitely gotten addicted to Eventbrite and the innumerable variety of interactive events their search engine gathers up for me to view on Zoom. I have signed up for well over 100 of them, with most occurring this month or next! I am actually losing sleep at times because of great stuff which happens in England, which is an area Eventbrite algorithms like to assign me. I love the historical and performing arts stuff which they offer, along with the wonderful accents. Last night I did a science fiction improv with a bunch of English young people, which was great fun and made me sort of feel like I was attending Hogwarts University (they were mostly in their early twenties). When I attended a couple of panels on British start-ups, for some reason the engineering guy was always Scottish with a thick brogue! Lol One such gentleman talked about how he worked on several James Bond films years ago, to help create the cool gadgets Q gave to the master spy. Finally, I have connected with some good crypto folks who I think will steer me right, and I also now have not one, but two personal life coaches! <br></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">John : ) </font></div></div>
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