Born to Win - Transactional Analysis with Gestalt Experiments by Muriel James.
“Each human being is born as something new, something that never existed before. Each is born with the capacity to win at life. Each person has a unique way of seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and thinking. Each has his or her own unique potentials, capabilities and limitations. Each can be a significant, thinking, aware, and creative being, a productive person, a winner.
The words winner and loser have many meanings. When we refer to a person as a winner, we do not mean one who makes someone else lose. To us, a winner is one who responds authentically by being credible, trustworthy, responsive, and genuine, both as an individual and as a member of society. A loser is one who fails to respond authentically. Martin Buber makes this distinction as he retells an old story of a rabbi who, on his deathbed, is asked if he is ready for the world to come. The rabbi says ‘yes, after all I will not be asked, why were you not Moses? I will only be asked, why were you not yourself?”
Few people are 100% winners or 100% losers. It’s a matter of degree. However once the person is on the road to being a winner, his or her chances are greater for becoming even more so. This book is intended to facilitate that journey - Born to Win by Muriel James.
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