You have listened to me for a year now talking about Choice Theory but I know Ive never really explained what Choice Theory is. Choice Theory is actually an explanation of all human behavior developed by Dr. William Glasser.
There are basically five components of this theorythe basic human needs, the quality world, the perceived world, the comparing place and total behavior. Ill give a brief overview of each one, starting with the five basic human needs.
The Basic Human Needs
We are born with five basic human needssurvival, love & belonging, power, freedom and fun. We are all born with these needs but we experience them to varying degrees. One person might have a high love & belonging need, while another person is high in freedom. We are born with these needs and are biologically driven to get them met in the best way available to us.
The Quality World
This is a place that exists inside all of us where we store pictures of things that have satisfied one or more of our basic needs in the past or things we think may satisfy them in the future. These things do not have to meet societys definition of quality. Alcohol is in the quality...