Philosophical Counseling: Problems & Better Alternative

[r0ckyreed]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

This is something you could say of all coaching and counseling.

It's overly reductive. The practical reality is that most people benefit a lot from outside guidance, expertise, and perspective. It is too easy to get stuck in one's own mind.

Learning how to think well is insanely difficult and tricky, which is why even doctors and academics like Jordan Peterson are bad at it.

Damn. That’s counterintuitive. I was mistaken.

[Treewatcher]

On this topic, Which really interests me, I got some other ideas. Such a person can help people dismantle their toxic ideologies.

Today so many people are completely brainwashed and bought into various toxic ideologies. You see this on the internet especially with nazis, magas, racists, socialists, far-leftists... I could continue the list forever from outaide politics topics also.

The ideologies takes hold from hearing seemingly true arguments, agreeing with them, and then going down a rabbit hole where the person aquires a whole bunch of beliefs that the idology entails with the justification for the beliefs being the initial agreeing to the first argument. After this the person will believe anything as long as it's congruent to the initial argument. Also if it matches the web of beliefs that was created. Problem is that it is not examined and is always very illogical.

Here and ideology consultant, counselor could help. He could help the person to figure out if the idology is actually true or not. He can guide them to examine the core beliefs and arguments and find out what is true and what is not.

this could prove extra useful to family members whose parents have gone crazy over some ideology off of facebook. 

If you want examples on how ideology is spread through social media, open X.

 

Another idea is a ideology consultant for organizations and businesses. 

All businesses need an ideology for why it is worth the investment from employees and investors. 

A mission statement.

They also need a deeper ideology for how the business is run.

It's values, MO, policy to form company culture etc.

Most importantly a manifesto to motivate workers and customers to get behind the company.

Many companies ideology is just to get money. For the investors and for the employees.

A truly powerful company and truly innovative companies had a deep mission that was accompanied by an ideology.

An ideology consultant can help form, shape, develope, sharpen, congrue and defend the ideology from opposing ideologies.

This could give a crazy ROI for businesses. 

 

Lastly purpose counselor, or as mentioned above and existential counselor.

This seems to exist already, but I think that many people who need this the most haven't heard of it, or don't have it as a possibility.

Sadly, in our society many people are struggling with meaninglessness due to many reasons. I belive it's not purely a philosophical issue but also an issue of humans not getting their deeper needs met.

Whatever the cause is, the truth is that this problem can be deadly and solving it is thus at utmost importance to those suffering.

Thus being a possible career choice for doing good and for that cha-ching. (Since you can't eat pure philosphy)

 

Do these seem viable? Just shooting what came to mind. Want to start a career in philosophy, but haven't found a paved road for it. Maybe these can be followed?

[Treewatcher]

Also any tips on the writing? I'm having a big exam on writing soon 🙈 and not so good at it naturally so practicing

[Staples]

Might be easier to market yourself as a life coach, and offer philosophical consulting as one service of many.

I've never even heard of such a job and I've been into this stuff for a decade.

[Leo Gura]

@Treewatcher There is definitely an opportunity to build an online brand of helping people to think through problems and issues. Somthing like what the Healthy Gamer did, or even Destiny is in that ballpark.

There do exist experts in cult deprogramming.

There is also an opportunity to combine psychoptherapy with philosophy, or business consulting with philosophy.

[Davino]

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

And I will have many new advanced videos that explain all the traps of thinking and how to think correctly.

I would love to see such videos!!!

[Davino]

@Treewatcher It's a nice idea to hire Philosophers to work on the company's culture. Never thought about it, great idea.

[QVx]

2 hours ago, Davino said:

@Treewatcher It's a nice idea to hire Philosophers to work on the company's culture. Never thought about it, great idea.

The level of corruption within the individual and collective mind of organisations, especially large ones, is absolutely frightening.