“We take a writer who can’t write. The wrong way to run it: ‘Give me a time when you couldn’t write. Give me some reasons why you can’t write.’ That’s the wrong way to run it. Those are all stop-time things. So they actually don’t exist on the track at all.
“‘Give me some times you wanted to write.’ The first thing you know the individual wants to write. Does he want to write because you’ve restimulated his desire to write? Partially, but mainly you’ve kicked out the first postulate on which the second postulate was depending for its force. There is no force in a dead thing. But a dead thing being kicked around by a live thing does have a lot of horsepower in it.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Axiom 53: The Axiom of the Stable Datum delivered on 23 August 1955. This can be found in the Axiom of the Stable Datum lectures. Track 14.
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