The secret of efficiency is the secret of control itself. One not only continues to create a job, day by day, week by week, month by month, he also continues the job by permitting it to progress, and he is also capable of stopping or ending any cycle of work and letting it remain finished.
Whether one handles a machine of the size of a car or as small as a computer or even an accounting pen, one is faced with the problems of control. An object is of no use to anyone if it cannot be controlled. Just as a dancer must be able to control his body, so must a worker in an office or a factory be able to control his body, the machines of his work and to some degree the environment around him.
What is a good worker? He is one who can positively control his equipment or tools of trade or who can control the communication lines with which he is intimately connected.
What is a bad worker? A bad worker is one who is unable to control the equipment he is supposed to control or the communication lines he is supposed to handle.
Control is so far from being bad that a person who is sane and in very good condition does not resent good, positive control and is himself able to administer good, positive control to people and objects. A person who is not in very good condition resents even the most casual directions and is actually not capable of controlling people or objects. The latter person is also inefficient and has many difficulties with work and with life.
When supervision gets up to 80 percent of the plant’s activities it is certain that the confusion will be so great that inefficiency will result in such magnitude as to ruin the activity.
An understanding of life is necessary to the living of it. Otherwise life becomes a trap. To so many of us in the work-a-day world this trap takes the form of WORK. “If only we didn’t have to work, how many delightful things could we do!” “If only we had some other way of getting money…” “Travel, vacations, new clothes… what a host of things would be ours if only we didn’t have to work!”
It is almost an educational factor of our society that work, duress of, is the root of our unhappiness. We hear unions and welfare states as well as individuals basing all their plea upon a reduction of work. Getting rid of work by virtue of reduced hours and the introduction of automatic machinery has become the by-word of our century.
Yet the most disheartening thing which could happen to most of us would be the loss of all future jobs. To be denied the right to work is to be denied any part of the society in which we live.
From the standpoint of sanity, man more dearly needs the Right to Work than he does an endless number of pretended freedoms.
Work is not something which springs ready-made into our sight. Work is something that is created. New inventions, new markets, new systems of distribution must be created and brought into existence as times change and old methods, old markets, old systems become inadequate and wear out.
It is not enough to coast along in a job. The job, day by day, has to be made by us, no matter who created it in the first place.
The ingredients of success are: First an ability to confront work with joy and not horror; a wish to do work for its own sake, not because one “has to have a pay-check”. One must be able to work without driving oneself or experiencing deep depths of exhausted. If one experiences these things there is something wrong with him. There is some element in his environment that he should be controlling that he isn’t controlling, or his accumulated injuries are such as to make him shy away from all people and objects with whom he should be in intimate contact.
Scientology for the first time in Man’s history can predictably raise intelligence, increase ability, bring about a return of the ability to play a game, and permits Man to escape from the dwindling spiral of his own disabilities. Therefore work itself can become a game, a pleasant and happy thing.
When a person is competent, nothing can shake his pride. The world can yell. But it doesn’t shake him. Competence is not a question of one person being more clever than another. It is one person more able to do what he is doing than another is.
You could say a competent person was “more there.” But this is really “more able to put his attention on what he has his attention on.”
To get someone to actually do what he is doing when he is doing it will sound cruel to some people. That’s because they find it painful to confront and would rather withdraw and maunder. They are not happy. Happiness comes from self-determinism, production, and pride. Happiness is power and power is being able to do what one is doing when one is doing it.
One of the best ways to cut your work in half is not to do it twice. Do it Now.
Probably your most fruitful source of overflow of work is your own double work. This is the way you do double work.
In short, the way to get rid of traffic is to do it, not to refer it; anything referred has to be read by you again, digested again, and handled again, so never refer traffic, just do it so it’s done.
This is how to buy free time!
Length:
– Full-time: 2 weeks
– Part-time: 1 month
I am a cause. A cause of all perceptions I have, of my abilities and my environment. Now I feel that I can take more responsibility for my job, my life in all fields. There are such simple things in this course that I’ve already started to do. And definitely will continue to do so.
– D.
If I would have done this Efficiency Course before I was in Scientology it would have helped me with all that has to be controlled or organized and I would have lost less time!
– D.
This course and its theory are aligned with life. It gave me certainty about things I had already noticed in the past, without really being able to apply them. It gave me back the joy of working that I knew in my childhood and that I had unfortunately lost on the way since.
– U.
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