Chapter 6 Gaining Self-Awareness

Le Verrier 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 Guides.

True or False: Some 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

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

• True

• False

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

• True

• False

True or False: The story of Jerome, the accounting student, illustrates that when a person has a clear goal, he or she 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.

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

• True

• False

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 these.

True or False: The purpose of our scripts is to maximize our pain and minimize our pleasure.

• True

• False