“All people are on a gradient scale of extroversion-introversion. It is optimum in this society at this time to have, I would say, about 80 percent of the attention on self to see that one behaves socially and 20 percent not further than two or three feet from the nose. And if one can assume this rather impacted state, he is then considered extremely acceptable socially because he’s in apathy and can be handled by the environment.
“Don’t think that a 50 percent introversion and a 50 percent extroversion is optimum. Just because it’s happy to break these two words down (they’re two words, so we break them in half), don’t think that’s optimum; it isn’t. We want a maximum of about 2 percent introversion and about 98 extroversion.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Six Steps to Better Beingness delivered on 3 October 1953. This can be found in the First International Congress of Dianeticists & Scientologists lectures. Track 3.
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