Submitted by Sue-Marie on Wed, 02/20/2008 - 11:02am.
Chelsea, thank you for sharing your personal experiences with this reading. Like you, I too have overcome a lot in my life and thought this meant I was resilient. I'm not quite sure about the resiliency testing in this book. I scored off the chart on impulse control and I honestly do not believe I have great impulse control, so that left me doubting the validity. I wonder if you agree with the assessment of your resiliency.
I also appreciated the love and LTR section and its emphasis on fighting more productively. I think this is much more dynamic than trying to sell to people that they can overcome fighting in personal relationships.
It's interesting that you did not feel the authors gave credit to CBT, because I felt they gave a huge amount of credit to Aaron Beck, and he is pretty much the founding father of cognitive therapy. I felt the book relied too much on the cognitive, not enough on the behavioral. It's so fascinating to see how different people come away with different things from the same reading material!
As for the beeper exercise, I think this would be fascinating. I'm tempted to get a beeping watch just to experiment with this myself.
Chelsea, thank you for sharing your personal experiences with this reading. Like you, I too have overcome a lot in my life and thought this meant I was resilient. I'm not quite sure about the resiliency testing in this book. I scored off the chart on impulse control and I honestly do not believe I have great impulse control, so that left me doubting the validity. I wonder if you agree with the assessment of your resiliency.
I also appreciated the love and LTR section and its emphasis on fighting more productively. I think this is much more dynamic than trying to sell to people that they can overcome fighting in personal relationships.
It's interesting that you did not feel the authors gave credit to CBT, because I felt they gave a huge amount of credit to Aaron Beck, and he is pretty much the founding father of cognitive therapy. I felt the book relied too much on the cognitive, not enough on the behavioral. It's so fascinating to see how different people come away with different things from the same reading material!
As for the beeper exercise, I think this would be fascinating. I'm tempted to get a beeping watch just to experiment with this myself.