“Anything that you think is wrong or non‑optimum about you occurs because of your surprises in the past at discovering something you were doing was not considered to be good or optimum or acceptable by some person that you were living close to. You were going ahead and doing what you thought was the right thing. And you found out, much to your amazement, it was the wrong thing.
“And these slight differences of opinion on what was correct and what was incorrect, by the way, start all the rows that occur in marriages. Now, I’ll give you an extreme example. A little boy comes in, his mommy has got a typewriter sitting on a table and it’s got white keys. So he says, ‘Isn’t that nice, now I’ll help Mommy and I’ll take a lead pencil and I’ll do the right thing and I’ll color all the keys of the typewriter,’ you see—or the piano, ‘color them all black,’ you know. And he gets licked for it. He has an awful time trying to straighten this out, you know? It just isn’t quite right. He didn’t know he was doing wrong and then he found out he was doing wrong.
“And that is the cycle of practically all conduct everyplace. You thought you were doing right and you found out you were doing wrong. … And there’s no security, you might say, on what we are doing and whether or not we’re doing it right or otherwise. And it makes an insecurity.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Importances delivered on 8 November 1959. This can be found in the Melbourne Congress lectures. Track 8.
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