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Choice Theory

A New Psychology of Personal Freedom

By William Glasser, MD

 
Choice theory explains that, for all practical purchases, we choose
everything we do, including the misery we feel.
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A good waY to learn choice theory is to take a close look at how you
treat your best friend, your boss, and most strangers compared to how
you treat the rest of the people in your life.
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According to the author, most of us understand the difference between
seeking happiness in relationships and seeking pleasure without
relationships.
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Ultimately, according to the author, we define reality in the way it
works best for us.
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In a choice theory world, the clinician would not begin with, "What are
you planning to do today?" He/she would instead begin with, "How are you?"
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It is possible to have a relationship by not evaluating it against some
ideal relationship that has been forming in your quality world for years.
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The workless love therapy.
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In reference to the session with Francesca, the author first stayed
strictly with her past problems.
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People who are physically sick often make the logical mistake of
concentrating their efforts on the symptoms of the disease, which they
can do nothing about.
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It has been the author's experience that helping people to look at a
psychological problem as a choice is a liberating awareness.
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"Fight or flight" is the beginning of the end of any relationship.
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We bond genetically with our parents.
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Choice theory is much more effective when it is used to prevent problems
than to solve them.
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Choice theory parents begin to teach their children as early as they can
walk on their own, that they have to be willing to take responsibility
for what they choose.
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Regardless of what has happened to us, choice theory does not focus on
the past as the cause of our present difficulties.
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The author does not believe that the main reason many students are doing
badly in school is that school boards, politicians and parents adhere to
the idea that what is taught in school is right.
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In schooling, calculation is a useful skill to learn, but once learned,
it is not useful to repeat over and over as is now done in most schools.
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Recent studies have found that fourth graders who do well on math and
science tests do not experience a huge drop-off when tested in the
eighth grade.
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What we need to do that is not within our reach, is to create model
quality elementary schools all over the country.
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False  

 
A mentally healthy child is ordinarily sometimes difficult at home but
good both in school and away from home.
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According to the author, for years, schools all over the country have
been buying discipline programs that promise to get students in order,
in a coercive system.
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According to the author, the skills of speaking and listening have the
largest payoff of all we learn.
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If there is a sure way not to get quality, it is to use coercion.
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False  

 
According to the author, work is not considered the defining component
of our lives.
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The specific harm of boss management is that it prevents anyone who is
bossed, which means most managers and almost all workers, from putting
the people above them into their quality worlds.
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According to the author, Americans may be the most greedy people with
wealth and power the world has ever known.
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Lead management is to boss management as choice theory is to external
control psychology.
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Whether it is within a company or how a company deals with the people it
does business with, "obstruction" is a huge but intangible cost.
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When a work injury occurs, there is always the problem of how to tell if
the complaint is actually part of the physical injury or is the worker's
way of restraining the anger at being injured.
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False  

 
The author does not ascribe to the belief that no human being should
ever evaluate another human being.
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False  

 
When we are with our wives, husbands, children, parents, expectations
are very much a part of all we do, and internal control is the way we
attempt to do it.
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False  

 
The author describes the school, Huntington Woods, as having been a
quality school for three years.
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The author claims that lower medical costs would slowly become apparent
as members of a community begin to use choice theory in their lives.
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The author claims that we pay a huge price for treating lonely people as
if they are sick. Teaching these people choice theory could reduce that
price and give many of them far more help than they get now.
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False