Basics of "Study Tech" from previous article: Hubbard believed that students had problems primarily because they skipped over words they didn’t fully understand. So at the heart of Study Tech is the “misunderstood word” or MU, which is solved by meticulously looking up chains of words in dictionaries, called “word clearing.” Second, Hubbard felt that students missed concepts because they were too abstract. He solved this by requiring a lot of modeling in clay and other materials. And third, Hubbard said learning had to happen on a gradient, meaning that advanced concepts can’t be understood until many intermediate steps are introduced first.
CLAIRE: You learn the three barriers to study. 1. The misunderstood (or not understood) word, 2. Lack of mass and 3. The skipped gradient.
Ask any Scientologist, they’ll be able to tell you the three barriers to study.
In my case, because I later trained as a supervisor (ran a course room of students for several years at the Int base) I was also required to learn all the symptoms of each of these barriers to study verbatim.
Sad to say I haven’t been able to get those out of my head as yet.
This course is all about studying and learning what the barriers to study are, and then learning how to apply those when you study.
And it’s also at this point that you learn the only reason anyone would ever question Scientology, or want to leave and stop studying Scientology, is because they have misunderstood words. (In Scientology slang, “M.U.s”)
THE BUNKER: That’s an interesting bit of conditioning: the only reason why you would doubt Scientology is that you have misunderstood Scientology’s words. That’s sort of chillingly brilliant.
[,,,]And the other aspect I found daunting in regards to my studies at this point was that on demos, clay demos, drills, checkouts etc. you could be given a “flunk” at every turn. At least from my experience, this was the opposite of positive reinforcement. Instead you were constantly being interrogated on the meanings of words. When you do a clay demo, someone has to check it for you, and if they don’t see the idea represented in clay, it’s a flunk. You get the idea.
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