“He decides he’s going to be a piano player. That’s the thing to be. Be a piano player. And oh yeah, he’s very interested in being a piano player and he takes one lesson, two lessons, three lessons and he meets a couple of other piano players. And the next thing you know, he’s not even interested in the piano anymore. He quits, he’s through. He doesn’t take up any further … Well, he decides, well, he’s not so successful in that particular field. The best thing for him to do is to become something completely out of this world, something he’s tremendously enthusiastic about—he’s going to be a painter.
“And he gets to the point where he learns how to clean a brush, and he quits. What’s he quit for? Now, that’s a very important thing to an auditor, because every preclear that’s sitting there in the chair or in the group and so forth, has quit just like this in various parts of life. He’s quit time after time. And he’s only sitting there because he’s quit. …
“Interest is not at fault. It isn’t because you have become interested in things and then have been disabused and betrayed so you had to withdraw from them. That is not what is wrong with the preclear. It is simply that he failed to keep on generating interest in what he was doing.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Two-way Communication delivered on 6 October 1954. This can be found in the 8th American ACC lectures. Track 3.
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