“You can ask people directly to change their minds, if they are pretty high on the scale, and have them change their minds. …
“That, by the way, makes a great actor—of which there are practically none today. Because it requires a beingness that is really beingness. He can change his mind and by changing his mind he can make a postulate stick. Therefore, he’s above the level of agreement.
“People don’t have to agree that he’s a great actor to have him be able to act. Do you know that almost every actor there is around believes that his ability to act has a great deal to do with whether or not the audience believes in him? You’ll find young actors, they will tell you this: ‘Well, if I had that much fame, I could act well too.’ You see? …
“They’re not very bad off when they’re doing this, they’re just stuck somewhere in the agreement band. They can’t postulate themselves into being anything. They can’t postulate themselves into being able to do something. They cannot change a condition by changing a postulate. A person should be able to do that.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Obnosis delivered on 9 January 1957. This can be found in the 16th American ACC lectures. Track 6.
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