      HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE

Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex



       HCO BULLETIN OF 23 MAY 1971

               Issue VII



Remimeo

Auditors

Supervisors

Students

Tech/Qual





        Basic Auditing Series 7



       PREMATURE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS





Here's a new discovery. Imagine my making one on the comm 

formula after all these years.



Do people ever explain to you long after you have understood?



Do people get cross with you when they are trying to tell you 

something?



If so, you are suffering from premature acknowledgment.



Like body odor and bad breath, it is not conducive to social 

happiness. But you don't use Lifebuoy soap or Listerine to cure 

it; you use a proper comm formula.



When you "coax" a person to talk after he has begun, with a nod or 

a low "yes," you ack, make him forget, then make him believe you 

haven't got it and then make him tell you at GREAT length. He 

feels bad and doesn't cognite and may ARC break.



Try it out. Have somebody tell you about something and then 

encourage before he has completely told you all.



THAT'S why pcs itsa on and on and on and on with no gain. The 

auditor prematurely acknowledged. THAT'S why pcs get cross "for no 

reason." The auditor has prematurely and unwittingly acknowledged. 

THAT'S why one feels dull when talking to certain people. They 

prematurely acknowledge. That's why one thinks another is stupid

-- that person prematurely acknowledges.



The quickest way to become a social pariah (dog) is to prematurely 

acknowledge. One can do it in many ways.



The quickest way to start the longest conversation is to 

prematurely acknowledge, for the person believes he has not been 

understood and so begins to explain at greater and greater length.



So this was the hidden ARC break maker, the cognition wrecker, the 

stupidifier, the itsa prolonger in sessions.



And why some people believe others are stupid or don't understand.



Any habit of agreeable noises and nods can be mistaken for 

acknowledgment, ends cycle on the speaker, causes him to forget, 

feel dull, believe the listener is stupid, get cross, get 

exhausted explaining and ARC break. The missed withhold is 

inadvertent. One didn't get a chance to say what one was going to 

say because one was stopped by premature acknowledgment. Result, 

missed W/H in the speaker, with all its consequences.



This can be counted on to make you feel frightened of being 

"agreeable with noises or gestures" for a bit and then you'll get 

it straight.



What a piece of tech to remain incompletely explained. Fair scares 

one it does. And in the comm formula too!





L. RON HUBBARD

Founder



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