Study Tape 1 - Studying: Introduction

The ability to learn is fundamental to the ability to audit (or to do anything).

All great successes are built on attention to fundamentals.

More than 50% of Scientology consists in the know-how of application.

"By the time you've rewritten James Watt, I think you've lost steam engines."

Study Tech must therefore include how to pass a technology along without losing it.

It's almost customary for a body of knowledge to come into being, some part of it get selected for development (& poorly duplicated) and the rest of it be lost (e.g. fixed wing is only one of 13 heavier-than-air methods of flight).

Civilisations can be lost on this basis.

One reason you might stop studying is because you had studied something false. That's not a good reason - you just have to include judgement and evaluation of what you are studying.

Rote learning includes no judgement or understanding of the material.

Study has to do with, basically, willingness to know.

The discipline of how you audit is very difficult to relay by written word, which gives a danger of losing the technology. However, it is easy to transmit by example.

The problem with study is not the relay of technology (i.e. processes etc.) but of how you do it.

This is in bulletins. It's comm. cycle, good indicators, etc. These can get brushed off lightly in favour of a trick process etc.

To study something, you must get over the idea that you know all about it or that there is nothing there for you to learn. I.e. you must be willing to learn.

Proper study of a subject will take you from the position of having only fixed ideas to an understanding of the fundamentals and thus the ability to exert judgement over what you are studying.

A lack of understanding can be detected from a lack of product.

The conditions of an activity should not necessarily monitor whether you get a result or not.

One can pretend knowledge of a subject, even to himself, to protect a status or reputation.

To criticise something technically (i.e. to express an opinion), you need to be able to do it yourself.

Someone who knows what he knows (has developed judgement) is willing to learn further. Someone operating off of fixed ideas is arrogant - considers it as an insult if it is suggested they don't know something.

True fundamentals are always "stupid", "nonsensical" and "not worth knowing", which is why they remain un-as-ised.

Where you fail in instruction is where you haven't isolated the first (or next) lesson to teach.