From: edainil@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 19:04
To: fzaoelma@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [fzaoelma] Application of the Study Tech and case gain
Hi Ray and all,

I have changed the thread title because the Study Tech is so basic and so powerful
that to neglect it is fatal for anyone who wants to make permanent case gain.  It is also vital in life in general.   Ray, Pat, Paul and others have years of experience using it and I'm sure have much to contribute on this subject and many stories to tell.
The stories are no substitute for doing the Student Hat course, but may help others understand the importance of doing the course and possibly for redoing it.  I'm writing a bit of my own experience here.  

My favorite of Winston Churchill's went something like this:
Two nations divided by a common language.

            Clever.  Despite all of his faults, that guy did have the biggest known  working English vocabulary.
I spent a couple of hours in our local library today. I looked up 2 words.


               You must have needed a specialised dictionary or encylopedia that you
   don't have in your personal library.  I once had to leave a courseroom and go to
   the local library in search of a Danish/English dictionary.  I had to clear an earlier/
   similar word and all I knew was that it was Danish.  A huge grief charge blew when
   I cleared it and a bit of last lifetime returned.  Yes, Paul is correct.  Those MUs
   really do stick bits of attention on the back track. 
      
One of the librarians really got into it too. She really had fun
understanding the concept regarding my need to really understand the use of
and meaning of the Author.


               Great!  Are you going to give her a Book One session? :)

The first word took most of the time. It sure was
fun though. The other word only took a few minutes. :):):)
         

               Applying the study tech correctly is fun.  Not using it is not fun.  I remember one day a student blew out of the courseroom and the org obviously very upset.  I was very surprised since he had transferred from another org and was flying on course; a bright guy and looked like an excellent student.  I went to the course supervisor and asked what had happened.  He said that what looked like bad indicators were in fact good indicators.  He had been so bright that every previous supervisor had missed that the student was glib.  He had just had his glibness cracked and had gone home to confront all that a lifetime of glibness implied.  The student returned to course the next day with a grim determination to learn even if he had to restudy from the bottom up.  He made it through OK. :)  

MUs can lead to some funny situations.  One day a staff member came and asked me for help with the mimeo machine.  The ink was running out of it. ?? Sure enough there was ink running through the cover and all over the floor.   It sure wasn't mimeo ink which is thick and doesn't run anywhere.  She insisted that it was the right kind of ink and there was something wrong with the machine.  I had her show me what she had put in the machine.  Aha!  It took a while to get that misunderstood cleared.
She was so sure that she had bought the right kind of ink.  It said it was for copiers right on the bottle.  As soon as the word was cleared she started line-charging.  She laughed for hours which sure helped her get through cleaning up all that ink and the machine.

In my early teens I was rather arrogant about not needing to use a dictionary.  I was certain that I could work out the meaning of new words from context and the bit of Latin that I was learning.  My father handled me on that.  He asked me to pick out a word and define it.  I chose the word house and said that everyone knew what a house was and gave him a definition.  He nodded and said that was correct, and then asked what were the other meanings of the word.  That stopped me dead.   He just nodded at the dictionary.  I looked it up:  five definitions!! (it was a small dictionary)  But it wasn't till I learned the study tech that I learned how to properly and fully clear a word.  Up till then I had used drawings to sort out complicated ideas.  That was OK as far as it went, but there is no mass with drawings; demo kits and clay demos provide the needed mass.  What a difference.

Edythe