[aleph_minus_one]

> if you learn things from therapy that improve your life then i guess it has worked.

To give a very "Hacker-Newish" snappy remark:

So, if the therapy teaches you programming, and you thus get a much better job improving your life, you'd claim that "learn to program" is a suitable therapy? ;-)

[bawolff]

I'd add the caveat that therapy is supposed to be meta (teach you about yourself).

Learning to program isn't therapy. Learning how to learn to program might be.

[aleph_minus_one]

> I'd add the caveat that therapy is supposed to be meta (teach you about yourself).

Then learning to program is therapy. :-D

I am serious: Learning (very abstract) mathematics, and programming, taught me an insane amount about myself:

- how I attempt to model and structure the world

- how better models of very diverse phenomena look like

- what such insights mean for my life

- ...

[drewcoo]

>> I'd add the caveat that therapy is supposed to be meta (teach you about yourself).

> Then learning to program is therapy.

Are you trying to say that learning to program is not learning logic?

[theGnuMe]

In the sense that you learned to reprogram your mind.