However, there have been many studies that have debunked this. Sexism prevents women from having equal pay.

The idea that men make seventy-seven cents more than a woman is accurate when you consider one answer to the problem. The gender pay gap is an excellent example of an ideology. Ideologies are incomplete thoughts and ideas about the world and things that happen in the world. This method is one way a clinician may help a client with making their ideal become a reality. Reality therapy has this idea: the WDEP (wants, doing, evaluating, planning) model central to reality therapy. Reality therapy is a therapeutic intervention conceptualized by William Glasser (1965) that examines what a person wants, evaluating what they are doing to get that want or need to be met, and then planning out a new pattern of behavior, and then acting that out to see if that works adaptively. As a person in the psychology profession, Reality therapy comes to the forefront. Those goals can be broken down into smaller goals if need be, and then each goal should be worked toward and achieved to make the ideal a reality.

What their ideal self be? Conceptualizing that will lead one to make a series of goals that would make that ideal a reality. If one were to look around at life and think, 'This is not ideal, and things could be a lot better,' one only needs to imagine what it would be like to have whatever it is that one could consider ideal. The rule in this chapter is about how to improve one's self. Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement. A successful new idea that works in conjunction with the social institution can be seen as a creative achievement. New ideas should be examined and implemented to see what happens and adjust where needed for a successful update.

Just because it is not broke does not mean the institution is working sufficiently within today's context compared to ten or maybe twenty years ago. The saying 'if it is not broke, do not fix it' comes to mind when describing the conservative mindset.

Perhaps if the institution does work, but not as well as it should, conservatives should take the institution's criticism by the liberal types seriously. Therefore, it is encouraged that conservatives carefully look to the institutions they want to conserve and take an honest assessment if they are too rigid. Due to the high openness of liberally oriented people, they are also more creative. New ideas typically come from the liberals due to their naturally open temperament. Conservatives are cautioned about the dangers of scoffing at new ideas.

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