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.

1. Losing Script

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3. 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.

4. Losing script
• 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.

5. Losing script
Berne 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.

6. Losing script
A losing script can be
broadly classified as
first, second and third
degree, according to
the severity of the
payoff.

7. 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.

8. Losing script
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.

9. Losing script
• 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.

10. 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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