The Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity

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A Letter from the Authors: What Is a Tool?


In conventional psychotherapy, we talk about insights or causation and we tend to believe that if we can uncover the deep-seated reasons behind someones problems, then the person will change automatically. This implies that awareness alone creates the forces that cause change. But real change, the kind of change patients in therapy cry out for, means changing your behavior, not just your attitude.

That requires much stronger forces. A tool is a technique or procedure that can generate a force that allows you to do the work of change. It is work that must be done in real time. When do we use a tool? In the present.

Conventional therapy tends to be passive and focuses on the past. It excavates a patients history, usually from childhood, brings it into the light of day and interprets it so as to strip it of its unconscious power. I have the greatest respect for the past. Memories, emotions, insights can all be very valuable. But my patients needed help and relief in the present and all the insights in the world werent going to be powerful enough to deliver that.

To control your actions you need something else: a specific procedure you can use systematically to combat a specific problem -- you need a tool.

Theres an obvious objection that arises here: Isnt what youre doing superficial? Sure, these tools of yours may help a patient change his or her behavior but you havent addressed the underlying reasons. Unless you do that theyre bound to go back to their (self-) destructive ways sooner or later.

There are two answers to this objection. The first involves a misunderstanding of how people change. Insight into the reasons for a problem isnt the cause of change its the result. Groups like Alcoholics Anonymous have always known this. You dont join AA and then sit around discussing why you drink too much over a few beers or vodka martinis. You join to stop drinking one day at a time. Only after that can you look into the roots of your addiction by taking inventory.

The second answer goes back to our original question about what a tool is. There has been a bias in psychotherapy implying that anything that is active and involves your will is superficial; as if the deepest part of human experience can only occur inside your head. The truth is the opposite; the deepest part of human experience happens when you interact with the world outside yourself. That means you need to go beyond thinking and into doingand this is exactly what a tool makes possible.

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