POWER PLAYS& MIND GAMES

THE TOP 3 GAMES PEOPLE PLAYAGAINST EACH OTHER

IN DEALING WITH

OTHER PEOPLE, WE

OFTEN FALL PREY TO

THEIR MIND GAMES

AND POWER PLAYS.

PEOPLE HAVE THREE MAJOR PROBLEMS WHEN DEALING WITH POWER PLAYS AND MIND GAMES

1. CANNOTRECOGNIZE

3. TOOPARANOID/

TOO POLLYANISH

2. CANNOTRESPOND

WHEN IT COMES TO NOT BEING ABLE TORECOGNIZE POWER PLAYS AND MINDGAMES, THE PHILOSOPHER ARTHUR

SCHOPENHAUER SAID:

“It would be a very good thing if every trickcould receive some short and obviously

appropriate name so that when a man usesthis or that particular trick, he could at

once be reproved for it.”

-Arthur Schopenhauer

P R E S E N T I N G :

P E O P L E G A M E S : T H E T E N M O S TC O M M O N M I N D G A M E S A N D P O W E R

P L A Y S T H A T P E O P L E P L A Y

P U R C H A S E I T @ A M A Z O N . C O M

T O D A Y , W E W I L L I D E N T I F Y A N DL E A R N T H E T O P T H R E E M I N D G A M E S

A N D P O W E R P L A Y S T H A T P E O P L EP L A Y A G A I N S T E A C H O T H E R

1. Dominance/Submission

D O M I N A N C E / S U B M I S S I O N

In this power play, one person tries to establish him orherself as the leader (the dominant) of the relationshipand the other person as the follower (the submissive). Idon’t mean this in a Fifty Shades of Grey kind of way,

but basically one person proclaims him or herself as theauthority over the other person.

2. You Can't Win

Y O U C A N ' T W I N

In this power play, no matter what you do, the other personfinds fault with you or your actions. This power play is a

subset of the dominance-submission power play, whereone person establishes him or herself as the arbiter of all

things correct or incorrect in the relationship.

The victim of this power play gets caught up in trying toplease or receive validation from the other person, but

because validation is never given or given out so rarely, thevictim works even harder and harder and in doing so

unwittingly establishes him/herself as the submissive inthe relationship.

3. Emotional Blackmail

E M O T I O N A L B L A C K M A I L

Simply put, someone using this power play uses extremes,and usually unrelated extremes, in order to compel another

person to do what he/she wants.

Instead of making requests in a straightforward and honestway, they prey on the other person’s emotions in order to

“blackmail” them into doing something they probably don’twant to do.

WANT TO LEARN MORE POWER PLAYSAND MIND GAMES

AND HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF FROMTHEM?

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