“This person has a terrible problem. You’ll find out that this problem is just poof! All they wanted, practically, is acknowledgment on the thing.
“I’m amazed at the number of fellows who have come up with problems and after telling me about the problems, didn’t have the same problem. But the problem of magnitude is this: ‘I can’t possibly come in on Friday night because I have to work Friday night.’
“I didn’t try to solve the problem for him, I just got him to state the problem in various ways. Where did he have to work? How did he have to work? Who was there? and so forth. Friday night—the guy in. He’d find a replacement for himself. Let him talk himself out of his problem. But that too is handling it. See? Even telling a person to ‘solve the problem’ is handling the man’s problem.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Second Lecture on Clearing Methodology delivered on 13 May 1959. This can be found in the 6th London ACC lectures. Track 15.
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