“So we have this triangle, it’s a very valuable triangle. If you want to know why somebody doesn’t know about something, it’s because he can’t control himself with regard to that subject, so he is being totally irresponsible for it by not knowing about it, you see? But then, nevertheless, it disappears out of sight, he hopes. And it’s gone! Now, there’s that triangle of Knowledge, Control and Responsibility and that is a very, very important triangle. …
“You can shift a person’s ability to control and all of a sudden he knows all about it. Therefore, you can take a motorcycle out and start it, stop it and change it, you see, reach and withdraw, fool around with the darn thing and the next thing you know, you know how the motor works. But you didn’t even look at the motor, you get the idea? Of course, you’ve known how the motor worked for ages. You’ve already known this for a very long time.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Inability to Withhold delivered on 7 January 1960. This can be found in the Hubbard Clearing Scientologist Course lectures. Track 4.
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