Influences
Redfield has acknowledged that the work of Dr. Eric Berne, the developer of Transactional Analysis, and his 1964 bestseller Games People Play as a major influence on his work. We can observe this influence, in the sixth insight when the authour refers to a precise point of the transactional analysis: Our behaviour as grown up comes from our childhood. Specifically, the "games" which Berne refers in his theories are tools used in an individual's quest for energetic independence.
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“The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.”
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“Do not seek anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation.”
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