The Self Authoring Suite Includes

The Self Authoring Suite includes:
Future Authoring
The Future Authoring Program is designed to help you imagine your ideal
future, three to five years down the road. What would your life be like if
you could set it up in the manner that would be best for you? You will be
asked to consider the people you admire, things you could do better, your
educational and career goals, what habits you would like to improve, your
family life, your social network, and your leisure activities. Click here for
more information.
Past Authoring
It is difficult to know who you are, where you should go, or how you should
get there, unless you know where you came from. The Past Authoring
Program is designed to help you write a structured autobiography. It is
particularly useful if you have memories that are more than about eighteen
months old that still intrude upon your thoughts, or that still evoke emotion
such as fear, regret, shame or confusion. Click here for more information.
Present Authoring - Faults
The Present Authoring - Faults exercise has been designed to allow you to
do an in-depth analysis of the negative elements of your personality, that
is, your faults. Click here for more information.
Present Authoring - Virtues
The Present Authoring - Virtues exercise has been designed to allow you to
do an in-depth analysis of the positive elements of your personality, that is,
your virtues. Click here for more information.
Past Authoring
It is difficult to know who you are, where you should go, or how you should
get there, unless you know where you came from. The Past Authoring
Program has therefore been designed to help you write a structured
autobiography. The program will help you:
 Divide your life into seven different time periods or epochs.
 Identify the most significant events that occurred during each
epoch.
 Describe how each of those experiences has shaped who you are
today.
It would be particularly useful to complete the Past Authoring Program if

you have memories that are more than about eighteen months old that still
intrude upon your thoughts, or that still evoke emotion such as fear,
regret, shame or confusion. If this is happening, it means that your mind
has not yet been able to fully process your past experiences, and that the
brain areas associated with negative emotion still regard the past events in
question as unresolved threats. This is not good, because your brain reacts
to unresolved threats with emergency physiological preparation, including
the production of stress hormones such as cortisol that can be very toxic
when chronically elevated.
The Past Authoring program is the most difficult and time-consuming of all
the programs. We recommend that you complete it after the Present and
Future Authoring programs, once you have become accustomed to the
process.
Present Authoring - Virtues
The Present Authoring - Virtues exercise has been designed to allow you to
do an in-depth analysis of the positive elements of your personality, that is,
your virtues. The exercise is structured around the Big Five Personality
Model. The Big Five model is an empirically derived measurement model of
personality that assesses variation in:
 Extraversion or positive emotion, dominance and enthusiasm

 Openness to Experience or creativity, artistic sensibility, and
philosophical-mindedness
 Emotional Stability or the absence of negative emotion (anxiety,
emotional pain, shame and guilt)
 Conscientiousness or orderliness and persistence
 Agreeableness or warmth, empathy and tender-mindedness (versus
assertiveness and aggression)
The Present Authoring - Faults exercise makes an excellent starting point.
It has been designed to allow you to do an in-depth analysis of the negative
elements of your personality, that is, your faults. The exercise is
structured around the Big Five Personality Model. The Big Five model is an
empirically derived measurement model of personality that assesses
variation in:
 Extraversion or positive emotion, dominance and enthusiasm

 Openness to Experience or creativity, artistic sensibility, and
philosophical-mindedness
 Emotional Stability or the absence of negative emotion (anxiety,
emotional pain, shame and guilt)
 Conscientiousness or orderliness and persistence
 Agreeableness or warmth, empathy and tender-mindedness (versus
assertiveness and aggression)
How it works
When you do the Present Authoring - Faults exercise, you will be asked to
identify your faults from among a list of traits that cluster around a
particular personality factor. So for extraversion, for example, you might
indicate that you tend to feel uncomfortable around others, or that you
bottle up your feelings, and so on. For Openness to Experience, you might
indicate that you have a hard time planning for the future because you are
interested in everything, or that you can become possessed by an idea.
After narrowing down the selected list to the faults that you feel affect
you the most, you will be asked to write about each fault, first describing a
time when that fault caused you trouble, and then exploring what you might
have done, or how you could have acted differently, to affect a different
outcome.
How it works
When you do the Present Authoring - Virtues exercise, you will be asked to
identify your virtues from among a list of traits that cluster around a
particular personality factor. So for extraversion, for example, you might
indicate that you feel comfortable around people, or that you are skilled in
handling social situations, and so on. For Openness to Experience, you might
indicate that you are always learning new things, or that you have a lot of
insight into yourself and others. After narrowing down the selected list to
the virtues that you feel are most pertinent, you will be asked to write
about each virtue, first describing a time when that virtue helped you
attain a desired goal or cause a desired outcome, and finally, exploring how
you might use that virtue more effectively in your present or future life.
FUTURE
Most people have never been asked to contemplate the question: "What do
you hope to achieve in your life and what kind of person do you want to be?"
This realization was the genesis of the Future Authoring program. Dr.
Jordan B. Peterson, professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto,
decided to ask his students to sit down and write about their ideal future.
They were asked to specifically describe the type of person they wanted to
be, the skills they wanted to attain, and the relationships they wanted to
have, among other things.
Note: To purchase the Future Authoring program on its own, please click
the Buy Now button below. To get the Future Authoring program bundled
with the other Self Authoring programs, please check out the Self
Authoring Suite.
Simply through this guided contemplation, Dr. Peterson's students found

themselves feeling like they had more direction in life. They were less
anxious about the uncertainty of the future, and knew what they could do
today to start down the path of becoming the person they wanted to be.
Since that first class, the Future Authoring program has been designed,
refined, and deployed to thousands of people. It has been found to be
profoundly effective at aligning goals with actions, and helping people
define what they want their future to look like and achieve it.
How it works
The Future Authoring Program is designed to help you imagine your ideal
future, three to five years down the road. What would your life be like if
you could set it up in the manner that would be best for you? You will be
asked to consider the people you admire, things you could do better, your
educational and career goals, what habits you would like to improve, your
family life, your social network, and your leisure activities.
Then you will be asked to write freely about your ideal future, without
regard for grammar or spelling, for 15-20 minutes. It is best to use your
imagination, to daydream, during this process. After that, you will be taken
through a series of exercises that will help you specify, in detail, your ideal
future, by summarizing, titling and prioritizing your goals, evaluating your
motives, considering their personal and social impact, strategizing for their
attainment, identifying potential obstacles and their solutions, monitoring
your progress, and evaluating your decisions.

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The Self Authoring Suite includes:

Present Authoring - Faults

Present Authoring - Virtues

It would be particularly useful to complete the Past Authoring Program if

Present Authoring - Virtues

 Extraversion or positive emotion, dominance and enthusiasm

 Extraversion or positive emotion, dominance and enthusiasm

Simply through this guided contemplation, Dr. Peterson's students found

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