“The less future a fellow has, the less present time he has. And it works like this: the fellow who is alert and can do things and has lots of things has a present time of several seconds wide—at least several seconds.
“See, the distance from past to future is several seconds wide. This is the way it looks to him. Therefore he has time to act, therefore he can act. Several seconds. He doesn’t just pinpoint time, ptock, you know? …
“A man who isn’t living—a man who isn’t planning several seconds ahead of the event isn’t in several seconds ahead of the event—doesn’t make very good plans.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Scientology and Children delivered on 14 April 1957. This can be found in the London Congress on Nuclear Radiation, Control & Healthlectures. Track 9.
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