The professional liability of a Scientologist is the fact he's dealing with significances and masses. You get these mismatched (slightly wrong significance for the mass or vice-versa) and you get catastrophe.
A professional develops a familiarity and an ability in his field to a degree that seems dangerous or upsetting to the public at large.
"Motivational Research" is used in advertising, but the people doing it don't know what makes people tick and so they aren't very successful.
By knowing the mind, you should not have any trouble with dissemination.
If you know the basic answers, 90% of the time things don't worry you and the other 10% of the time you can do something about it.
You find out most things via words these days, and words are booby-trapped - they've got the mind push-buttoned.
You nearly always assign the trouble to the wrong part of the sentence or material because the actual problem is something you're not confronting.
Second-hand knowledge is extremely valuable, including the fact that it helps you get the maximum benefit from first-hand knowledge.
This is the way you maintain and carry forward a culture of any magnitude.
If you introduce someone (e.g. an illiterate culture) to the existence of knowledge related to their existence, you had better follow it up with education in that knowledge, otherwise they will become stultified and die.
Communism controls people by playing on their ignorance of words and has an impressive array of political vocabulary to help with this.
It's the illiterate people of the world that get overwhelmed and defeated. The death of a civilisation is based upon its accumulated not-understandings.
There are two extremes: "I know everything therefore there's no reason to learn" and "I can't learn because I don't know the words". The correct course is in between.
The thing to do is know the words and stay alert - you'll find out there's always some technology being boiled up someplace.
It is particularly likely for someone prominent in their field to become complacent and fall behind. This is a danger a Scientologist faces.
To succeed, a person must observe, understand and do.
The less direct the observation, the greater the understanding has to be.
Understanding adds up to ARC. In study, understanding is a substitute for mass.
You have to understand the relay of the information as well as the info itself.
Second-hand observation can be due to time - e.g. observing a tree via a sprout or a stump. (There are "types and brands" of understanding not otherwise covered in the lecture.)
Our understanding of second-hand data must include an evaluation of the reliability of the information. "This is where the bulk of sentient beings fall down."
This civilisation is in the apathy of saying "We don't have to know because someone else knows."
You don't always have to know what something means to continue but if you get a headache in the next half page it's because you didn't understand it. Your knowledge/use of Study Tech can include this.
A person can approach a subject as a dilettante but shouldn't then get the idea that they are an expert (i.e. the trap of thinking you know all about something so don’t have to learn).
A dilettante will trip over nomenclature, as specialised words are used for specialised observations.
A lot of the culture is known only as an understanding to various degrees without any intention to do. This is fine; you regulate your doingness as required for the use you have for the subject.
Just don't make a habit of it!
Doingness requires much, much, much more understanding than just lookingness, and sometimes your first results are very disappointing. In this case you need to improve your understanding.
Or realise "it never worked anyway", but that's rare.
Don't learn "it's too difficult".
As well as accomplishing something, doingness is also another method of achieving understanding. If you find yourself bogged, go and do some of it.
You need to be able to extract useful info and basics from the gobbledegook that might also be present.
Know what you want the data for and evaluate it with that in mind. Otherwise your use will be minimal and you become "stultified", "horrified" and hung up on words.
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