Don't Do Nothing

“You must get his beingness ability up. When you do this, although he doesn’t feel he’s progressing very rapidly, you’re actually increasing a lot of the perimeter of existence. …

“And one day he incautiously gets the idea, ‘You know, I think I’ll learn how to plumber things.’ And he walks down the street and he sees a plumber shop and he thinks, ‘Yeah, that’d be a lot of fun and… making pipe and hanging that together again and so forth.’ And he suddenly realizes there’s nothing stopping him from being a plumber. This is very surprising to him, because he never daydreamed that long before without suddenly getting his teeth kicked in*. He could actually think about being a plumber, and he might not think of it for another month or more.

“And then all of a sudden he thinks of something: he’d love to go for a drive. And he goes out and he gets in the car and goes for a drive and the rest of the family faints. He’s never volunteered to go for a Sunday drive. He’d go to work every day and he’d go to all places, he’d drive down to the movies. But just to go for an idle drive that would arrive nowhere and get back to nothing, just to see the sights or something like this, this character has never volunteered doing. And he actually probably would get into trouble with the whole family, they’d think he’d gone mad or something, just because this is such a change of pattern.”

— L. Ron Hubbard

*kicked in the teeth: given a severe disappointment or setback.

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