Chapter 6: Gaining Self-Awareness

1. Leverrier predicted that an invisible planet was pulling the planet Uranus off its predicted course around the sun. Likewise, human beings are pulled off course by the invisible forces of their _____.

• Conscious minds

• Unconscious minds

• Inner Guide

Many people sabotage their goals and dreams by unconsciously choosing actions, thoughts, and/or emotions that get them off course from their goals and dreams.

• True

• False

When Creators are off course, they tend to deny it make excuses, blame others, or give up.

• True

• False

One characteristic of Creators is that they are able to recognize and acknowledge when they are off course.

• True

• False

The story of Jerome, the accounting student, illustrates that once a person has a clear goal he will not get off course.

• True

• False

Eric Berne, the creator of a mode of counseling called Transactional Analysis, referred to our invisible inner forces as…

• Defense mechanisms

• Patterns

• Habits

• Scripts

As part of our script, each of us has developed three kinds of habit patterns: behaviors, thoughts, and emotions.

• True

• False

1. Our habit patterns are motivated by our unconscious core _____.

We seem to create our scripts as a result of…

• How others responded to us

• What significant adults said to us

• Observing the behavior of significant adults in our lives

• All of the above

Diana, the student in the author’s writing course, had a script from her childhood that said her brain didn’t work well. (Rewriting Your Outdated Script)

• True

• False