2018-10-18

In addition, more and more psychologists affirm that thinking skills play a crucial role in our personal lives. The leading form of psychotherapy in this country, in fact, is cognitive therapy. This therapy is based on the idea that most mental problems (neuroses) result from faulty thinking habits. Noted psychologist Albert Ellis, founder of the Institute of Rational Emotive Therapy, claims, “Man can live the most self-fulfilling, creative, and emotionally satisfying life by intelligently organizing and disciplining his thinking.”

 Like other famous psychologists before him, Ellis notes that to organize our thinking we must wrestle with our own negative tendencies. “As Freud and his daughter Anna accurately observed,” he says, “and as Adler agreed, humans are prone to avoid focusing on and coping with their problems and instead often sweep them under the rug by resorting to rationalization, denial, compensation, identification, projection, avoidance, repression, and other defensive maneuvers.” 

In short, although the challenge of improving your thinking is great, no other kind of self-improvement has the potential to affect every area of your life so positively.

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另外，越来越多的专家断言思维技巧在我们的个人生活中扮演着至关重要的角色。事实上，这个国家的主要心理治疗的主导形式是认知疗法。这种疗法的基础是大多数精神问题(神经症)是由错误的思维习惯造成的。心理学家Albert Ellis，理性情感治疗协会创建人指出，“人可以通过明智地组织和约束自己的思想，过上最自我实现、最有创造力、最能满足情感的生活。”

和他之前的其他著名心理学家一样，埃利斯指出，为了组织我们的思维，我们必须与自己的消极倾向作斗争。“正如弗洛伊德和他的女儿安娜准确地观察到的，”他说，“正如阿德勒所同意的那样，人类往往避免关注和处理他们的问题，而往往通过采取合理化、否认、补偿、识别、投射、回避、压制和其他防御策略，对这些问题置之不理。”

总之，尽管改进思维的挑战是巨大的，但没有任何一种自我提高能够如此积极地影响你生活的每一个方面。