The document discusses how people cling to their beliefs from childhood to avoid imagined disasters. It makes three key points: 1) As infants, people make decisions about themselves and the world to avoid some terrible catastrophe, and they cling to these beliefs as they grow up. 2) Every time people's beliefs are confirmed, it makes the imagined disaster seem less likely if they change their behavior. 3) People act according to their beliefs, thinking the pain of their current behavior is less than the unknown disaster of changing.

1. The script as protection against disaster

2. Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
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School of Management Studies
CUSAT, Kerala, India.
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3. The script as protection against disaster
• When I made my script
decisions as an infant, it
seemed to me that the only
alternative to following these
directions would be some
terrible, unspeakable
disaster.
• At all cost, it had to be
avoided. And the only way I
knew of avoiding it was to
cling to the decision I had
made about myself, others
and the world.

4. The script as protection against disaster
• Each time I could confirm
script decisions, I made it
seem less likely that the
catastrophe would overtake
me.
• We act it out of the belief:
“The way I am behaving
now is painful. But it is not
nearly as bad as the
unknown disaster that
would happen if I changed
my behavior.”

5. Thank You

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