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Executive and real self
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Prepared By Manu Melwin JoyResearch Scholar
School of Management StudiesCUSAT, Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114
Mail – [email protected]
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Introduction• For simplicity, we usually
assume that a person can be in only one ego state at a time.
• In reality, it is possible for someone to behave in a way that fits one ego state, while he experiences himself as being in a different ego state.
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Example• Imagine that I am at work,
discussing a planned assignment with a colleague.
• For the first few minutes of the discussion, I have my attention fully on the task in hand.
• If you were watching my behavioral signals, you would make a secure judgment that I am in Adult.
• My own internal experience also is that I am in Adult – responding to the here and now, exchanging and assessing information.
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Example• But as the talk goes longer and
longer, I begin to feel bored. • I say to myself in my head “ I
wish I were out of here. It is such a nice day outside – I did rather be taking a walk in the fresh air. But I don’t suppose I can…”.
• Now I am experiencing my child.
• I am replaying times from my school days when I had sat indoors in class, feeling bored with the lesson and wishing I could go out and play.
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Example• Bored though I feel, I keep on
with the job in hand.• As you observe my behavior,
you see me continuing to exchange information.
• Thus outwardly, I am still behaving in Adult. But my behavior no longer fits with the ego state I am experiencing.
• To describe this situation, Berne suggested a distinction between the executive and real self.
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Real and executive
• When an ego state is dictating a person’s behavior, that ego state is said to have executive power.
• When a person experiences himself to be in a particular ego state, we say he is experiencing that ego state as his real self.
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Real and executive• Most often, the ego state with
executive power will also be experienced as the real self.
• In the example, initially I had executive power in Adult and simultaneously experienced Adult as my real self.
• But then, as I began to feel bored, I shifted my experience of real self into my Child ego state.
• Nevertheless, I continued to act in a way that was consistent with Adult.
• Thus I kept executive power in the latter ego state.
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Real and executive• Suppose my work colleague
had kept up the discussion for even longer, I might the have yawned and lost track of what he said.
• As he waited for me to reply to one of his points, I might have blushed and said “Oh, Sorry, I am afraid, I wasn’t with you”.
• Now I would have executive power in Child while also experiencing Child as real self.
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Activity• Make up at least three
more examples which illustrate someone having executive power in one ego state while experiencing a different ego state as her real self.
• Do you recall any examples of this from your own experience in the past week?
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Thank YouThank You
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