It's unfortunate, but understandable, that Glasser's Choice Theory has been confused in this thread with the ideas expounded in The Secret, or with the idea that we choose to be washed out to sea by attracting a tsunami with our negative energy, just because the word
choice is involved in both ideas.
That's a misunderstanding. The concepts are not related in any way whatsoever, so I hope nobody confuses them. They don't even exist in the same philosophical spheres.
The quote in the above post is from a blog post here at PsychCentral, written by someone who rejected Glasser and Choice Theory when she was in grad school. Glasser's recent passing caused her to reconsider and the blog ends this way.
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I have no doubt that there is much more to what Dr. Glasser had to say than the bits I’ve read, and I’m only skimming the surface of his ideas, but perhaps I was too quick to judge his ideas. Choice theory is certainly worth learning about and I should have made more of my course when I was in it.
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The difficulty with discussing Choice Theory in a forum like this is it really can't be understood by reading bits and pieces and pulling sentences or ideas out of the complex, inter-related whole. To add to the confusion, if you google it, you'll get a bunch of sites related to economic theory. So, if you do decide to do a web search be sure to put in Glasser's name, too. Like this: William Glasser + Choice Theory. Otherwise you might up in the economics departments at Stanford and MIT and that will only add to the confusion.
Happy reading.