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The author speculates on the future of William Glasser's ideas. She discusses Glasser's fascination with technology and his predications about the importance of techno logy in the future. The author suggests that Glasser's ideas can be advanced through the use of technology, but also emphasizes the necessity of maintaining meaningful personal relationships in order to live a happy life.
During his entire professional life, William Glasser remained on the cutting edge of the most current and innovative ideas being offered to the world at the time. In fact he was one of the innovators. Over fifty years ago he created Reality Therapy, a completely new and unique approach to psychotherapy. Not stopping there he continued to evolve his ideas to encompass almost every aspect of human behavior in relationships of various kinds.
He eventually developed a theory to explain why Reality Therapy (Glasser 1965) was so effective in helping people understand their own behavior. He offered the study of Choice Theory (Glasser, 1998) to explain what people need to know about human behavior in order to make the changes necessary to live happy and productive lives.
Dr. Glasser was an avid reader. He never stopped thinking and creating new ideas. He would find some new information, think about it for a while and then start to write a book in his head about how he could expand the idea using Reality Therapy and applying Choice Theory. He wrote 21 books and countless articles about ways to help people get along better in any conceivable relationship, from family, to schools, to education, to corrections, to the world of work and management.
About a year before he died on August 23, 2013, he was no longer able to work on his computer. None-the-less, he told me he was writing a new book in his head about saving the environment and the world as we know it. He became very interested in the technology of the Tesla automobile and decided he would like to own one. He could no longer drive, but since I realized this would be the last car he would ever want, we went shopping at the Tesla store.
He was fascinated with the technology of this computer on wheels and was convinced...