Losing Script

Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar

School of Management StudiesCUSAT, Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114

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Losing script• A loser means

someone who does not accomplish a declared purpose.

• Once again, it is not just the accomplishment or otherwise that matters, but the degree of comfort that goes with it.

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• If I decide to become a great leader, join army and finish up being drummed out in disgrace, I am a loser.

• I am also a loser if I decide to be a millionaire, become one and feel perpetually miserable because of my ulcer and the pressure of business.

Losing scriptBerne was careful to define winner and loser in relation to accomplished declared purposes because he wanted to emphasize that winners are not simply to be equated with people who piled up material goods and money. Nor were losers necessarily those people who were short of material things.

Losing script

A losing script can be

broadly classified as

first, second and third

degree, according to

the severity of the

payoff.

Losing script

A first degree losing script

is one where the failures

and losses are mild enough

to be discussed in the

person's social circle. Ex :

Repetitive quarrels at work,

failure in exams etc.

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Second degree losers

experience unpleasant

script outcomes that are

serious enough to be

unacceptable topics for

social conversation. Ex :

fired from series of job,

hospitalized for severe

depression etc.

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• A third degree losing script culminates in death, serious injury or illness or a legal crisis.

• Third degree payoff might be imprisonment for stealing the firm’s funds, life long hospitalization for a psychiatric disorder or suicide after failing final examinations.

Losing script• We often use the term

harmartic to describe third degree losing scripts and their payoffs.

• The word is derived from the ancient Greek harmartia, meaning “a basic flaw”.

• It reflects the way in which a losing script, like an ancient Greek drama, seems to lead inexorably from the early negative decision to the tragic final scene.

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