Albert Ellis

I'm judging those behaviors individually.

And this gets to an idea from rational emotive behavior therapy, which was developed by this guy named Albert Ellis.

Uh, this was kind of a precursor to CBT.

And the basic idea is that we, to a large degree, construct our emotional difficulties like self-blame or shame or anxiety by holding on to different kinds of irrational or self-defeating thoughts, and these thoughts are themselves based on rigid or illogical or extreme beliefs.

They're like the way that we look at the world.

There's a psychologist named Albert Ellis.

Albert Ellis wrote a bunch of books And so all around the idea that if you have emotional distress, it's because you have bad ideas.

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100% agree.

And, you know, There was, I don't know how long he's been gone, 15, 20 years maybe.

There was a psychologist named Albert Ellis.

That's a huge issue that we can discuss, but many people don't want to go that deep.

But it also dovetails with that concept I told you about before we started today is one of the founders of one of the greatest therapies we have, rational emotive behavioral therapy, Dr. Albert Ellis, a very famous therapist.

He once had a very famous statement.

The best years of your life are when you finally realize all of your problems are up to you.

Cognitive behavior therapy is really an extension of ancient Stoic practices, particularly Epictetus' work.

Albert Ellis, Aaron Beck, deeply influenced by Stoicism.

But rule number one is life is full of suffering.

Scott Barry Kaufman said, warning, you have a case of life.

It makes us less resilient.

In fact, there's a psychologist named Albert Ellis.

He made a connection between complaining and this thing he called low frustration tolerance.

That the more we complain, the more we have this low frustration tolerance.

It makes us less resilient.

There's a psychologist named Albert Ellis.

And he talked about this.

He talked about the connection between complaining and what he termed low frustration tolerance.

CBT is up on the roof with a toolbox and a very strict schedule patching the leaks.

Theorists like Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis shifted the focus entirely away from the deep past and onto current observable behaviors.

Yeah.

And Ellis created something called the ABC model, which perfectly illustrates how CBT works.

He's got great data.

Let's study Albert Ellis.

He's got great data.

Let's study Richard Schwartz is a newer system.

That's in there.

It's one of my favorite things taken from Albert Ellis and rational emotive therapy.

It's perfect for this.

There's a bunch of journaling prompts to uncover those self-sabotaging beliefs.