The document discusses driver behavior characterized as 'try hard,' highlighting the use of language, tone, posture, gestures, and facial expressions typical of individuals exhibiting this behavior. It warns against the use of slides for personal purposes without permission and provides links to additional topics related to transactional analysis. The author, Manu Melwin Joy, is an Assistant Professor at Ilahia School of Management Studies in Kerala, India.

1. Try Hard – Driver Behavior

2. Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
Assistant Professor
Ilahia School of Management Studies
Kerala, India.
Phone – 9744551114
Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com
Kindly restrict the use of slides for personal purpose.
Please seek permission to reproduce the same in public forms and presentations.

3. Try Hard
Words : Often the person in Try
Hard will use the word try.
When used in driver fashion,
try always conveys “ I will try
to do it instead of doing it”.
Other typical words are
difficult, can’t, what? Don’t get
you, it is hard.. And
interrogative grunts like huh?
Uh?
Example :
– “ What I am trying to tell you
is…”
– “ I will try and do what we
agreed.”

4. Try Hard
Tones
– The person will sometimes
tense up the throat muscles
so that the voice sounds
muffled or strangled.
Posture
– With try hard as with Please
others , the person often
strains forward.
– Hands may be placed on the
knees.
– General expression is of a
hunched up pose.

5. Try Hard
Gestures
– Often one hand is placed beside
the eyes or besides one ear, as
though the person were straining
to hear or see something.
– Fists may be clenched.
Facial expressions
– A frequent clue for try hard is
that the person crunches his
brow up so that two vertical lines
appear above his nose.
– The eyes and sometimes the
whole face may be screwed up
into tight wrinkles.

6. References

7. Thank You

8. Other TA topics available on slideshare
1. Strokes - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/strokes-24081607.
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3. Structural Analysis - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/the-ego-state-model.
4. What is TA? - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/what-ta-is
5. Cycles of Development - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/cycles-of-
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6. Stages of Cure - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/stages-of-cure.
7. Transactions - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/transactions-33677298.
8. Time Structuring - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/time-structuring.
9. Life Position - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/life-position.
10. Autonomy - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/autonomy-33690557.
11. Structural Pathology - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/structural-pathology.
12. Game Analysis - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/game-analysis-33725636.
13. Integrated Adult - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/integrated-adult.
14. Stroke Economy - http://www.slideshare.net/manumjoy/stroke-economy-
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