Improving Life in a Troubled World

Improving Life
In A Troubled World

by L. Ron Hubbard

We live in a world where we have governments, and we have societies and so forth, who are desperately trying to help man. They're trying however to solve his problems for him and their efforts to solve his problems for him have not really resulted in any great advance for man.

The average man is up against certain problems.

The average man is up against certain problems.

Now the real work here is to put man in a mental condition where he can solve his own problems. And the aim and goal of Scientology is to take an individual or a group, and by taking individuals in the group, put them in a position where they can confront their own problems, and solve their own problems and so bring themselves up by their own boot straps.

Well let me put it this way, have you ever had a friend that you tried to give advice to, who then took it and went along fine? Or have you had friends that when you gave advice to them, why they rather resented it and didn't take it?

So he looks around, he starts solving his own problems and he betters his own life.

Let's put this on a much broader basis. If we take a man and we keep giving him advice and giving him help and pushing him along and so on, we don't necessarily wind up with the resolution of his problems. But if, on the other hand, we put him in a position where he had higher intelligence, where his reaction time was better, where he could confront life better, where he could identify the factors in his life more easily, then he's in a position where he can solve his own problems. So he looks around, he starts solving his own problems and he betters his own life.

That is the difference between Scientology and other efforts to help man.

Scientology is for an able guy like you, or like me, able to function in life, able to make his own way, does his work, and so forth.

All right, that's the man that should be helped. That's the man you should help out because that fellow is having a hard time and he's got his problems. Now if you put him in a position where his intelligence is up to handling his problems, where his ability to confront life is increased, you'll find out that he is bettered. He can better his environment, he can take care of his family better, he can do his job better, he can live better and so forth.

The average man is up against certain problems. He's asking himself certain questions - how can I make more money, how can I make my wife faithful to me, how can I make my children grow up? In other words, how can I live a better life, how can I make things more stable for my family, how could..., you know, how, how, how? And what am I up against? What is happening to me in my life? What is my purpose in life? and so forth.

These questions in actual fact absorb a tremendous quantity of his energy, and he himself is not able to go out and do anything very progressive about it, so the best thing for him to do is to go out and do something about it. But he can't do anything about it because he is so immersed in this. So actually in Scientology processing, he resolves these questions, he understands what he's doing, he knows what he wants to do, he makes up his mind and he goes ahead and does it and he turns from a man who is simply a puzzled static being into somebody who is more dynamic, who is able to accomplish something.

L. Ron Hubbard
edited from the filmed interview,
"An Introduction to Scientology"

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