Taibi Kahler suggests there are four myths which underlie drivers and rackets. They consists of two pairs. One of each pair comes from the parent. The other is a child response.

1. Four myths underling drivers and rackets
Transactional Analysis

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Manu Melwin Joy
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Ilahia School of Management Studies
Kerala, India.
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3. Four myths
Taibi Kahler suggests
there are four myths
which underlie drivers
and rackets. They
consists of two pairs.
One of each pair comes
from the parent. The
other is a child response.

4. Four myths
As I get into a driver, I
replay a voice from my
negative nurturing
parent that says: “ I can
make you feel good by
doing your thinking for
you.” This is the first
myth.

5. Four myths
In my adapted child, I
respond: “You can make
me feel good by doing
my thinking for me”. So
long as I am believing
this second myth, I
maintain my conditional
Okness.

6. Four myths
Perhaps I go through the
driver and into a racket
feeling. As I do so, I hear
an internal voice from my
negative controlling
parent. It repeats the third
myth: “ I can make you
feel bad by what I say to
you”.

7. Four myths
Shifting into negative
adapted child, I echo this
with the fourth myth. I
begin believing: “ you can
make me feel bad by what
you say to me.”

8. Four myths
When we get into drivers
and rackets while
communicating with
others, we are re-running
these mythical beliefs.

9. Four myths
Suppose you and I are
having an argument. I yell
at you: “ Now you are
making me feel annoyed”.
At that instant, I am
believing the fourth myth,
“Other people can make
me feel bad by what they
stay to me.”

10. Four myths
In reality, there is no
means by which this can
happen. I am responsible
for my own feelings and
actions. For sure, I am
responding to your words
by feeling annoyed.

11. Four myths
You are not making me
feel annoyed. If I choose, I
could feel amused, blank,
scared, excited or any
other of a thousand
feelings.

12. Four myths
In your turn, you may
actually believe that you are
irritating me. Perhaps, you
want me to be irritated. But
you cannot make me feel
that way. You can issue me
with a strong invitation.
Whether I respond to your
invitation is up to me.

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