“An absolute lose would be ‘Never play the game again.’ An absolute win would be ‘This man is the champ. No opponents.’
“Champion tennis player trots down to the court—he wants a little bit of exercise, you know. … He says, ‘Well boys, how about batting a few across the net?’
“No game. Nobody to play tennis with. He’s too good. Somebody humors him finally, bats some balls at him, watches them come back with the velocity of a high‑explosive bullet. This fellow, after a while, he’s going to say, ‘Hmmmm, now wait a minute here. I’m not getting any game. There’s nobody playing tennis with me at all. Well, I know what I’ll do,’ and I’ve actually seen a golfer do this, by the way, ‘I’ll strap up my arm because it’s so bad off and play golf with one hand.’ And he got a game that way.
“His golf was never any good afterwards, either. But he could play lots of golf, couldn’t he? But having made the fatal postulate ‘I shall limit the game,’ he then may continue to limit his game.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Games Processing Applied to Auditing delivered on 14 February 1956. This can be found in the The Remedy of Havingness lectures. Track 13.
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