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The Eight Basic Loser Scripts

 

 

    I. The biosurvival loser:
“I don’t know how to defend myself.”
   II. The emotional-territorial loser:
“They all intimidate me.”
  III. The semantic loser:
“I can’t solve my problems.”
  IV. The sociosexual loser:
“Everything I like is illegal, immoral, or fattening.”
   V. The neurosomatic loser:
“I can’t help the way I feel.”
  VI. The metaprograrmming loser:
“Why do I have such lousy luck?”
 VII. The neurogenetic loser:
“Evolution is blind and impersonal.”
VIII. The neuroatomic loser:
“I’m not psychic, and I doubt that anyone is.”