A theorist, William Glasser (2016), states that people have five psychological n

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A theorist, William Glasser (2016), states that people have five psychological needs that are driven by their genes to motivate their behavior: love and belonging, power (the need for recognition or to get one's way), freedom (the need to keep our options open), fun, and one physical need: survival. The problem is that often these needs will conflict with each other. How would you resolve this conflict in yourself? How do you think that these needs will affect your personal, academic, and professional choices?

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Choice Theory of William Glasser states that our behaviors are conscious based on the choices of our needs. We all want to be loved,to love and want to have a sense of belonging, hence,we share,care, respect, make friends and cooperate.The need of power creates need to be successful,to be recognized,to have importance and achieve skills. The need of freedom creates the needs to be have our own choices and to have control over our life. The need of fun creates the need to be joyful,enjoy our life,to learn and to transform. The need of survival makes us to lead a healthy life and to strive for the physical needs of ourselves.

Often our behaviors have conflict between the choices, these conflicts can be resolved by controlling or making choice in how we act, think, feel or physiology components of our behavior. For example if we feel disappointed or feel angry at some body we can organise or resolve our behavior by thinking about our anger whether it's necessary to really be angry and disappointed. Thus,this theory states that we are the sole drivers of our behaviors.

These needs affect the preferences that we make in our personal, academic, and professional choice. We all create our own quality world based on the preferences given to these needs.We all live in our perceived world,that is when we perceive a situation that satisfy our preferred need we value it. Thus, there's always a comparison between the quality world and perceived world,and our preferences are highly subjective to change. We learn new behaviors and transform our life ,thus our total behaviors is constantly growing and transforming.

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