## Metadata * Author: [[Eric Berne]] * ASIN: B005C6E76U * ISBN: 1515030296 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005C6E76U ## Highlights we shared a common interest in how the past effects people—some let it decide who they are, while others make it part of what they will do. What — location: [37](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B005C6E76U&location=37) ^ref-38633 --- a game as a patterned and predictable series of transactions which are superficially plausible but actually conceal motivations and lead to a well-defined predictable outcome. — location: [84](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B005C6E76U&location=84) ^ref-55181 --- (Con) + G (Gimmick) = R (Response) —> X (Switch) —> P (Payoff) — location: [92](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B005C6E76U&location=92) ^ref-8803 --- The “con” is the first move/invitation made by the initiator, Person A. The “gimmick” is the weakness in Person B which leads him or her to respond to the con. — location: [92](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B005C6E76U&location=92) ^ref-52476 --- an Adult request for information was, at the psychological level, really an invitation for Johnny to lie—and — location: [100](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B005C6E76U&location=100) ^ref-35595 --- Her Payoff was a sudden surprise feeling of righteous wrath. — location: [101](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B005C6E76U&location=101) ^ref-35971 --- drama triangle of interaction. — location: [117](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B005C6E76U&location=117) ^ref-17257 --- games arise when people cannot get a living person to stroke them in the style to which they were accustomed in early childhood — location: [142](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B005C6E76U&location=142) ^ref-1834 --- stimulus-hunger, — location: [213](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B005C6E76U&location=213) ^ref-14446 --- solitary individual can structure time in two ways: activity and fantasy. — location: [293](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B005C6E76U&location=293) ^ref-1984 --- the Child is in many ways the most valuable part of the personality, and can contribute to the individual’s life exactly what an actual child can contribute to family life: charm, pleasure and creativity. — location: [360](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B005C6E76U&location=360) ^ref-43975 ---