The Natural Law of Personal Success

DYNAMIC TEAM BUILDING SERIES
The Natural Law

OF PERSONAL SUCCESS
A HUBBARD COLLEGE WORKSHOP

BASED IN PART ON THE WORKS OF L. RON HUBBARD
TO THE READER
In reading this material, be very certain you never go past a word you do not fully understand.
The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or
she has gone past a word that was not understood.
The confusion or inability to grasp or learn comes AFTER a word that the person did not
have defined and understood. It may not only be the new and unusual words you have to look up.
Some commonly used words can often be misdefined and so cause confusion.
This datum about not going past an undefined word is the most important fact in the whole
subject of study. Every subject you have taken up and abandoned had its words which you failed to
get defined.
Therefore, in studying this material be very, very certain you never go past a word you do not
fully understand. If the material becomes confusing or you can’t seem to grasp it, there will be a
word just earlier that you have not understood. Don’t go any further, but go back to BEFORE you
got into trouble, find the misunderstood word and get it defined.
IMPORTANT NOTE
This workshop manual is based in part on the works of L. Ron Hubbard. The article contained
herein is presented to the reader as part of the record of his personal research into life, and the
application of same by others, and should be construed only as a written report of such research and
not as a statement of claims made by the author or organization. Any verbal representations made
to the contrary are not recognized.
Mr. Hubbard researched into may aspects of life and he is renowned for his contributions in
the fields of administration, philosophy, education and drug rehabilitation. This booklet contains
the fruits of Mr. Hubbard’s research and discoveries in the field of administration—the technology
of survival and expansion for groups. The principles contained herein have been adopted and
employed with great success by many businesses and other groups around the world.
These materials are not intended to promote any religion, any religious belief or any religious
doctrine. As is common business practice, it is recommended that any person or organization
implementing employee training programs and practices check with an attorney before doing so to
ensure compliance with local laws and regulations.
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THE NATURAL LAW OF PERSONAL SUCCESS
STUDY GUIDE
Name:
Date Started: Date Completed:
PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY GUIDE:

The purpose of this Study Guide is to guide you through The Natural Law of Personal
Success workshop.
HOW TO DO THIS WORKSHOP:
You do this workshop with a partner. Both you and your partner are to follow the steps
of the Study Guide at your own pace. For your convenience, this workshop is laid out in
the order in which it is done. It is important not to skip any steps of the Study Guide.
The drills, essays, and practicals are done in the training room. The implementation
steps are done on your own outside of the training room, and you may do several steps
at a time.
Each drill has instructions, so make sure you read them before starting on the drill. Do
each drill until you and your partner have fully achieved the passing standard given in
the drill’s instructions. Essay and practical sheets are included.
Feel free to write up any gains or accomplishments you have while on this workshop
and turn them in to your Trainer.
TIME TO COMPLETE:
3 hours to complete everything up to the implementation steps. The implementation
steps of this workshop should be done outside of the training room, on your own time.
You should be able to finish the implementation within a week.
IMPORTANT: IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR DIFFICULTIES, GET
IN TOUCH WITH YOUR TRAINER. HE/SHE IS THERE TO HELP YOU
GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS WORKSHOP.
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1. DRILL: The Natural Law of Personal Success Basic Words Drill
Part One
2. DRILL: The Natural Law of Personal Success Basic Words Drill
Part Two
3. READ: The Natural Law of Personal Success
4. DRILL: The Natural Law of Personal Success Study Drill
5. ESSAY: Give five examples of valuable final products that you’ve
produced.
6. ESSAY: What does the following statement mean to you in relation
to valuable final products?
“And exchangeability means outside, with something
outside the person or activity.”
—L. Ron Hubbard
7. ESSAY: Give three examples of products that are exchangeable and
three examples of products that aren’t.
8. ESSAY: Explain what “long-range survival” would look like to you.
Give five examples of things or circumstances that would
contribute to long-range survival.
9. ESSAY: Explain in your own words what producing valuable final
products has to do with achieving long-range survival. Give
an example.
10. ESSAY: Give three examples of the following statement that you’ve
seen:
“Persons who wish to destroy civilizations promote
departures from these basic rules of the game. Methods of
corrupting fair interchange are numerous.”
—L. Ron Hubbard
11. ESSAY: Explain what valuable final products you are currently
producing in your work. Whom, outside your activity, do
you exchange them with? What kind of exchange do you
get?
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12. ESSAY: Explain how the following statement could be true:
“How well organized things are increases production
volume and improves quality and thus can bring about
viability.
“But it is the valuable final product there and being
interchanged that determines basic survival.”
—L. Ron Hubbard
13. ESSAY: Give an example of a time where you experienced low
personal viability. How was the volume and quality of your
actual valuable final products at that time? Explain.
14. ESSAY: Explain what you could have done at that time to increase
viability.
15. SKETCH: Do a sketch of the following statement:
“One then must organize back from the actually produced
product.”
—L. Ron Hubbard
16. ESSAY: Explain what the following statement means to you. Give
an example.
“Therefore the producer has a stake in maintaining the
sanity of the scene in which he is operating, and one of his
valuable final products is a scene in which production and
interchange can occur.”
—L. Ron Hubbard
17. ESSAY: Explain how you could increase the volume or quality of the
valuable final products you can produce in the next week.
IMPLEMENTATION: Do the actions you listed in Step 17 above.
IMPLEMENTATION: 1. Write down all of your situations, problems,
or difficulties as they relate to The Natural Law of Personal
Success workshop.
2. Pick one of these situations, problems, or difficulties.
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3. Work out and write down what you can do about it.
4. Do the action(s) you listed above and let us know how it
went.
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BASIC WORDS DRILL PART ONE
Purpose of this drill:

The purpose of this drill is to ensure you understand the basic words you will be coming
across while studying this workshop.
How this drill is done:
This drill is done with another person. Both people are to read the drill’s questions and
answers before starting the drill.
The person asking the questions is the “coach,” and the person answering is the “student.”
The coach asks the student the question, and the student answers it. The answer does not
have to be word-for-word; just the concept must be correct.
If the student gets a question incorrect, the coach shows him or her the answer. The coach
then has the student explain the answer in his or her own words. Once the student has it
in his or her own words, the coach re-asks the question. The coach then continues with
the next question. Once they’ve finished the drill, they start again from the beginning.
How to pass this drill:
The student is done with the drill when he or she can answer all the questions correctly,
from the first to the last, without missing any.
The point of this drill is not for you to just memorize the answers to the questions, it is
to help you actually understand the information.
Very important:
Words often have several meanings. The definitions used in this drill only give the
meaning that the word has as it is used in this workshop. To get the full understanding
of each word, look at its other definitions in a dictionary.
In the course of doing this drill, if you come across any word you do not understand, stop
and ask your Trainer what it means. This does not mean you got the question incorrect.
It is simply to help you understand what’s being asked or what you’re explaining.
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Note:
Answers to the questions in the drill that are in quotation marks are the words of
L. Ron Hubbard.
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QUESTIONS:
1. What is a product?
A product is “a completed thing that has exchange value within or outside the activity.
Unless it’s exchangeable it’s not a product at all.”
2. What is value?
Value is worth in terms of usefulness or importance of a product or service to another.
3. What does final mean?
Final means reached or designed to be reached as the outcome of a process or a series of
events.
4. What does exchange mean?
Exchange means to give something in return for something received; trade. “One
exchanges something valuable for something valuable. In many ways an exchange can
occur. Currently it is done with money.”
5. What is goodwill?
Goodwill is friendly, helpful, or cooperative feelings or attitude.
6. What is a purpose?
A purpose is the reason why something is done or why something exists. It is something
set up as an object or an end to be attained; an intention.
7. What is an organization?
An organization is “a number of persons or groups having specific responsibilities and
united for some purpose or work. They are going along in some direction which they
do not too violently disagree with, and it will make progress to the degree that it stays
in agreement and holds its form and to the degree that it refines its form to meet new
threats to its existence and so it will survive.”
8. What does long-range mean?
Long-range means relating to a period of time that extends far into the future.
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9. What is the sane?
The sane are those people who have “an absolute perfection in reasoning, which would
resolve problems to the optimum good of all those concerned.”
10. What is the insane?
The insane are those people who “cannot control or withhold their evil impulses. Those
who cannot tell right from wrong.”
11. What is a motive?
A motive is a reason for doing something, especially one that is hidden or not obvious.
12. What is rationality?
Rationality is “power to draw conclusions that enable one to understand the world
about him and relate such knowledge to the attainment of personal and common ends;
power to reason or being in accordance with what reason dictates as being right, wise,
sensible, etc.”
13. What is competence?
“Competence is not a question of one person being more clever than another. It is one
person being more able to do what he is doing than another is. Being competent means
the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment
itself.”
14. What does furnish mean?
To supply something or provide somebody with something.
END OF DRILL
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BASIC WORDS DRILL PART TWO

The purpose of this drill is to ensure you understand the basic words you will be coming
across while studying this workshop.
This drill is done with another person. Both people are to read the drill’s questions and
answers before starting the drill.
The coach asks the student the question, and the student answers it. The answer does not
have to be word-for-word; just the concept must be correct.
If the student gets a question incorrect, the coach shows him or her the answer. The coach
then has the student explain the answer in his or her own words. Once the student has it
in his or her own words, the coach re-asks the question. The coach then continues with
the next question. Once they’ve finished the drill, they start again from the beginning.
Very important:
Words often have several meanings. The definitions used in this drill only give the
meaning that the word has as it is used in this workshop. To get the full understanding
of each word, look at its other definitions in a dictionary.
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Note:
L. Ron Hubbard.
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QUESTIONS:
1. What is communication?
“Communication is the exchange of ideas or things between people. One person sends it
and the other gets it. It can be an object, a written message, a spoken word or an idea.
The ability to communicate is the key to success in life.”
2. What is a particle?
A particle is “the thing being communicated. It can be an object, a written message, a
spoken word or an idea. In its crudest definition, this is communication.”
3. What is an impulse?
An impulse is a driving or motivating force.
4. What is a flow?
A flow is “the progress of particles or impulses from point A to point B.”
5. What is determinism?
Determinism is power of choice or decision.
6. What are ethics?
Ethics are “the actions an individual takes on himself to correct some conduct or situation
in which he is involved which is contrary to the ideals and best interests of his group. It
is a personal thing. When one is ethical or ‘has his ethics in,’ it is by his own determinism
and is done by himself.”
7. What is control?
Control is “the ability to start, change, and stop one’s activities, body, and one’s
environment.”
8. What is discipline?
Discipline is mental self-control used in directing or changing behavior, learning
something, or training for something.
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9. What is morale?
Morale is “a state of well-being and cheerfulness based upon such factors as physical or
mental well-being, a sense of purpose and usefulness and confidence in the future.”
10. What is interchange?
Interchange is the action of two or more people exchanging things, especially ideas,
opinions, or information, with each other.
11. What is regularity?
Regularity is the fact of happening often and steadily.
12. What does entitle mean?
Entitle means to give (someone) a legal or fair right to receive or do something.
13. What is PRing?
“PRing means giving false assurances; covering up; putting up a lot of false reports to
serve as a smoke screen for idleness or bad actions; cheery falsehoods.”
14. What does viable mean?
Viable means “capable of supporting itself and thus staying alive.”
END OF DRILL
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From an Article Written by L. Ron Hubbard
By definition, a valuable final product is something that can be exchanged with

other activities in return for support. The support usually adds up to food, clothing,
shelter, money, tolerance and cooperation (goodwill).
On an individual basis this is easy to grasp. The individual produces a product
or products which, flowed into the department,1 division,2 organization, company,
community, state, nation or planet, then returns to him his pay and goodwill or at least
sufficient goodwill to prevent his abandonment or destruction.
Long-range survival of the individual is attained in this fashion.
A valuable final product (VFP) is valuable because it is potentially or factually
exchangeable.
The key word in this sense is EXCHANGEABLE. And exchangeability means
outside, with something outside the person or activity.
A valuable final product could as easily be named a VALUABLE EXCHANGEABLE
PRODUCT.
Sanity and insanity are matters of motive, not rationality or competence. The sane
are constructive, the insane are destructive.
Thus insanity on the part of the potential receiver of a VFP can prevent an exchange
of a final product the receiver should be able to use and for which he should be willing
to give active support and goodwill to the producer. Example: Man starving; you try to
sell him good food at reasonable price for which he has money to pay. He tries to shoot
you and destroy the food. This is insanity since he is trying to destroy the product he
needs and can afford.
1. department: “a portion or section of an organization with its own staff headed by an executive and responsible
for the performance of certain functions or production of certain products. For example, the Communications
Department.”
2. division: “a part, section. Example: the research division of a company, the engineering division of a university.”
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Crime is the action of the insane or the action of attempting seizure3 of product
without support. Example: Robbers who do not support a community seek to rob from
it supporting funds.
Fraud is the attempt to obtain support without furnishing a product.
Sanity and honesty then consist of producing a valuable final product for which one
is then recompensed4 by support and goodwill, or in reverse flow, supporting and giving
goodwill to the producer of the product.
Ethical basics, morale, social subjects, law, all are based on this principle5 of the
valuable final product. Previously it has been “instinctive” or “common sense.” It has not
before been stated.
Civilizations6 which facilitate7 production and interchange and inhibit crime and
fraud are then successful. Those that do not, perish.
Persons who wish to destroy civilizations promote departures from these basic rules
of the game. Methods of corrupting fair interchange are numerous.
Parts of organizations or organizations, towns, states and countries all follow the
principles which apply to the individual.
The survival or value of any section, department, division or organization is whether
or not it follows these principles of interchange.
The survival or value of any town, state or country follows these principles of
interchange.
You can predict the survival of any activity by confirming its interchange regularities
or can predict its downfall by irregularities in this interchange.
Therefore it is vital that a person or a section, department, division or part of an
organization or an organization figure out exactly what it is interchanging. It is producing
something that is valuable to the activity or activities with which it is in communication
and for that it is obtaining support.
If it is actually producing valuable final products, then it is entitled to support.
3. seizure: the act of taking a hold of an object quickly and firmly.
4. recompense: to pay or reward (someone) for effort or work.
5. principle: fundamental truth, law, etc., upon which beliefs or actions are based.
6. civilization: a society that has a high level of culture and social organization.
7. facilitate: to make something easy or easier to do.
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If on the other hand it is only organizing or hoping or PRing and is not producing
an interchangeable commodity8 or commodities in VOLUME or QUALITY for which
support can be elicited and even demanded, it will not be VIABLE.
It doesn’t matter how many orders are issued or how well organizing boards9 are
drawn or beautiful the plans to produce are made. The hard fact10 of production remains
the dominant11 fact.
How well organized things are increases production volume and improves quality
and thus can bring about viability.
But it is the valuable final product there and being interchanged that determines
basic survival.
Lack of viability can always be traced to the volume and quality of an actual valuable
final product.
Hope of a product has a short-term value that permits an activity to be built. But
when the hope does not materialize,12 then any hoped-for viability also collapses.
One then must organize back from the actually produced product.
For instance, a technical13 subject is capable of producing an exact result.
IF persons are trained to actually produce the result AND THE RESULT IS
PRODUCED then one can exchange the technicians with the community for support.
If the result is produced (by training the technicians well) then the result can be
interchanged with an individual for support and goodwill.
Where any of these factors14 suffer in volume or quality, then an interchange is
difficult and viability becomes uncertain.
As individuals, communities and states are not necessarily sane, upsets can occur in
the interchange even when production is occurring.
8. commodity: a useful or valuable thing.

9. organizing board: a board that shows what functions are done in the organization, the order they are done in, and
who is responsible for getting them done. The organizing board is ‘a list of hats with seniorities.’”
10. hard fact: difficult to explain away; undeniable.
11. dominant: more important, effective, or prominent than others.
12. materialize: to become real or fact.
13. technical: belonging to or involving a specialized subject, field, or profession.
14. factor: something that contributes to or has an influence on the outcome of something.
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Therefore the producer has a stake15 in maintaining the sanity of the scene in which
he is operating, and one of his valuable final products is a scene16 in which production
and interchange can occur.
The basics of valuable final products are true for any industrial17 or political or
economic18 system.
Many systems attempt to avoid these basics and the end result would be disaster.
The individual, section, department, division, organization or country that is not
producing something valuable enough to interchange will not be supported for long. It
is as simple as that.
15. stake: personal or emotional interest, concern, or involvement.

16. scene: a set of circumstances of any kind; a situation.
17. industrial: relating to, used in, or created by the organized economic activity concerned with the processing of raw
materials and manufacture of goods in factories.
18. economic: of or relating to economics, which is the branch of knowledge concerned with the production,
consumption, and transfer of wealth.
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STUDY DRILL

The purpose of this drill is to ensure you understand what you studied in this workshop.
You do not have to read this drill before you start. This drill is done with another person.
First time through:
The student has the answers in front of him or her. The coach asks the student the
question, and the student answers it. He or she can look at the answer if needed. The
answer does not have to be word-for-word; just the concept must be correct.
The coach then asks the student, “How can you apply this in your business or your life?”
The student then works out how he or she can apply it and the coach listens, helping
the student work out anything if needed. There is no incorrect answer to this question.
The coach then continues with the next question, asking the application question after
each one.
Second time through:
Once they’ve finished going through the drill the first time, they start again from the
beginning, this time without the answers in front of the student and without asking
the application question. The coach simply asks the question written in the drill and
the student answers it. The answer does not have to be word-for-word; just the concept
must be correct.
If the student gets the question incorrect, the coach shows him or her the answer. The
coach then has the student explain the answer in his or her own words. Once the student
has it in his or her own words, the coach re-asks the question.
If the student achieves the passing standard given below on the second time through,
the drill is done. If he or she does not, this is repeated as many times as needed until this
standard is achieved.
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VERY IMPORTANT:
L. Ron Hubbard.
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QUESTIONS:
1. What is a valuable final product?

“By definition, a valuable final product is something that can be exchanged with other
activities in return for support.”
2. What does the support usually add up to?
“The support usually adds up to food, clothing, shelter, money, tolerance and cooperation
(goodwill).”
3. How does this work on an individual basis?
“On an individual basis this is easy to grasp. The individual produces a product or products
which, flowed into the department, division, organization, company, community, state,
nation or planet, then returns to him his pay and goodwill or at least sufficient goodwill
to prevent his abandonment or destruction.”
4. What makes a VFP valuable?
“A valuable final product (VFP) is valuable because it is potentially or factually
exchangeable.”
5. What is the key word in the above statement?
“The key word in this sense is EXCHANGEABLE.”
6. And what does exchangeability mean?
“And exchangeability means outside, with something outside the person or activity.”
7. What could a valuable final product easily be named?
“A valuable final product could as easily be named a VALUABLE EXCHANGEABLE
PRODUCT.”
8. What are sanity and insanity matters of ?
“Sanity and insanity are matters of motive, not rationality or competence. The sane are
constructive, the insane are destructive.”
9. What is crime the action of ?
“Crime is the action of the insane or the action of attempting seizure of product without
support.”
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10. What is fraud?
“Fraud is the attempt to obtain support without furnishing a product.”
11. What do sanity and honesty consist of ?
“Sanity and honesty then consist of producing a valuable final product for which one is
then recompensed by support and goodwill, or in reverse flow, supporting and giving
goodwill to the producer of the product.”
12. What do successful civilizations do?
“Civilizations which facilitate production and interchange and inhibit crime and fraud
are then successful.”
13. What happens to those that don’t do the above?
“Those that do not, perish.”
14. What is the wish of persons who promote departures from these basic rules of
the game?
“Persons who wish to destroy civilizations promote departures from these basic rules of
the game.”
15. What is the survival or value of any section, department, division or
organization?
“The survival or value of any section, department, division or organization is whether
or not it follows these principles of interchange.”
16. How can you predict the survival or downfall of any activity?
“ You can predict the survival of any activity by confirming its interchange regularities
or can predict its downfall by irregularities in this interchange.”
17. When is an individual, section, department, division or part of an organization,
or organization entitled to support?
“If it is actually producing valuable final products, then it is entitled to support.”
18. When will it not be viable?
“If on the other hand it is only organizing or hoping or PRing and is not producing
an interchangeable commodity or commodities in VOLUME or QUALITY for which
support can be elicited and even demanded, it will not be VIABLE.”
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19. Regardless of how many orders are issued or how well organizing boards are
drawn or beautiful the plans to produce are made, what hard fact remains
dominant?
“It doesn’t matter how many orders are issued or how well organizing boards are drawn
or beautiful the plans to produce are made. The hard fact of production remains the
dominant fact.”
20. How does good organization bring about viability?
“How well organized things are increases production volume and improves quality
and thus can bring about viability.”
21. What determines basic survival?
“But it is the valuable final product there and being interchanged that determines basic
survival.”
22. What can lack of viability always be traced to?
“Lack of viability can always be traced to the volume and quality of an actual valuable
final product.”
23. What is the value of hope of a product?
“Hope of a product has a short-term value that permits an activity to be built.”
24. But what happens when hope doesn’t materialize?
“But when the hope does not materialize, then any hoped-for viability also collapses.”
25. How must one then organize?
“One then must organize back from the actually produced product.”
26. IF persons are trained to actually produce the result AND THE RESULT IS
PRODUCED, what can one then do?
“IF persons are trained to actually produce the result AND THE RESULT IS
PRODUCED then one can exchange the technicians with the community for support.”
27. If the result is produced, what can then be done with it?
“If the result is produced (by training the technicians well) then the result can be
interchanged with an individual for support and goodwill.”
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28. What happens where any of these factors suffer in volume or quality?
“Where any of these factors suffer in volume or quality, then an interchange is difficult
and viability becomes uncertain.”
29. As a producer has a stake in maintaining the sanity of the scene in which he is
operating, what is one of his valuable final products in this regard?
“Therefore the producer has a stake in maintaining the sanity of the scene in which he
is operating, and one of his valuable final products is a scene in which production and
interchange can occur.”
30. What is true about the individual, section, department, division, organization
or country that is not producing something valuable enough to interchange?
“The individual, section, department, division, organization or country that is not
producing something valuable enough to interchange will not be supported for long. It
is as simple as that.”
END OF DRILL
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ESSAY
Give five examples of valuable final products that you’ve produced.
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ESSAY
What does the following statement mean to you in relation to valuable final products?
“And exchangeability means outside, with something outside the person or activity.”
—L. Ron Hubbard
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ESSAY
Give three examples of products that are exchangeable and three examples of products
that aren’t.
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ESSAY
Explain what “long-range survival” would look like to you. Give five examples of things
or circumstances that would contribute to long-range survival.
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ESSAY
Explain in your own words what producing valuable final products has to do with
achieving long-range survival. Give an example.
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ESSAY
Give three examples of the following statement that you’ve seen:
“Persons who wish to destroy civilizations promote departures from these basic rules
of the game. Methods of corrupting fair interchange are numerous.”
—L. Ron Hubbard
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ESSAY
Explain what valuable final products you are currently producing in your work. Whom,
outside your activity, do you exchange them with? What kind of exchange do you get?
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ESSAY
Explain how the following statement could be true:
“How well organized things are increases production volume and improves quality
and thus can bring about viability.
“But it is the valuable final product there and being interchanged that determines
basic survival.”
—L. Ron Hubbard
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ESSAY
Give an example of a time where you experienced low personal viability. How was the
volume and quality of your actual valuable final products at that time? Explain.
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ESSAY
Explain what you could have done at that time to increase viability.
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SKETCH
Do a sketch of the following statement:
“One then must organize back from the actually produced product.”
—L. Ron Hubbard
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ESSAY
Explain what the following statement means to you. Give an example.
“Therefore the producer has a stake in maintaining the sanity of the scene in which
he is operating, and one of his valuable final products is a scene in which production
and interchange can occur.”
—L. Ron Hubbard
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ESSAY
Explain how you could increase the volume or quality of the valuable final products you
can produce in the next week.
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IMPLEMENTATION
1. Write down all of your situations, problems, or difficulties as they relate to
The Natural Law of Personal Success workshop.
2. Pick one of these situations, problems, or difficulties.
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3. Work out and write down what you can do about it.
4. Do the action(s) you listed above and let us know how it went.
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HUBBARD ADMINISTRATIVE TECHNOLOGY
“It is not man’s dreams that fail him,” declared L. Ron Hubbard in 1969. “It is the
lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.” For that reason, and
that reason alone, “Whole nations, to say nothing of commercial firms or societies or
groups, have spent decades in floundering turmoil.”
The consequences stare back at us as headlines every day: crippling deficits, onerous
taxation, failing businesses, and in the prosperous United States alone, more than
30 million people now living below the poverty line. It is not for nothing, then, that
Mr. Hubbard further explained, “Man’s happiness and the longevity of companies and
states apparently depend upon organizational know-how.”
If one genuinely understood how individuals best function—their needs, aspirations
and the source of their failings—one would naturally understand how groups of
individuals best function. Such was the stance from which L. Ron Hubbard addressed
the problems of how we cooperate with others—not with administrative gimmicks or
authoritarian decrees, but with a uniquely compassionate view of groups as individuals
united in a common purpose.
In all, Mr. Hubbard spent more than three decades developing and codifying the
management policies by which organizations function.
These policies are derived from the fundamental laws governing all human behavior.
Among the principles found in these policies is the very key Conditions of Existence,
which Mr. Hubbard defined in terms of the degrees of success or survival of something.
The basic concept is vaguely known to the astute administrator who speaks in terms of
“corporate health.” But whereas the idea of corporate health implies only two states—
good or bad—and offers no precise means of improving that health, Mr. Hubbard
provides a great deal more. Specifically, Mr. Hubbard analyzed the various degrees
of survival—from a non-existence state to a dangerous situation, to a condition of
emergency to one of normal, affluence and power. Moreover, he has spelled out the
necessary formulas or actions one must take for the improvement of any condition. That
is, by simply performing the outlined steps, one rises through each condition to the next
until one’s organization is indeed thriving.
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To eliminate any guess work as to one’s operating condition, Mr. Hubbard further
worked out the methods of monitoring organization health by statistics. The statistic,
as he defined it, is a number or amount compared to an earlier number or amount of
the same thing. Thus, statistics refer to the quantity of work done or the value of it,
and are the only sound measure of any production or any activity, be it organization or
individual.
Administratively, then, the statistic provides the barometer of organizational health,
while Mr. Hubbard’s Conditions of Existence provide the means for improving that
state of health. Correctly utilized, these tools allow for the exact isolation of troublesome
areas, and how to improve those trouble spots.
Given what Mr. Hubbard’s management breakthroughs represent in terms of
providing the natural rules by which groups truly function, it was inevitable that his
management discoveries would become much in demand in general industry and
elsewhere. Initially, to meet that demand, Mr. Hubbard authored for the working public,
The Problems of Work, offering techniques for such job-related maladies as stress and
exhaustion. Like all else that Mr. Hubbard provided in this field, this work represented
not a particular interest in business, but a desire to make the fundamental truths of life
known to others—and since work occupies so much of our lives, his efforts in the field
were appropriate. As word of what is contained in the greater body of Mr. Hubbard’s
administrative works continued to spread, the Hubbard Colleges of Administration
were then founded.
These institutions specifically utilize Mr. Hubbard’s discoveries for the expansion
of a professional’s ability to tackle the challenges of administering and running a group,
company or organization.
Hubbard Administrative Technology
is used today by more individuals and
organizations than any other single
management system on earth.
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DYNAMIC TEAM BUILDING SERIES

The Natural Law

A HUBBARD COLLEGE WORKSHOP

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PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY GUIDE:

Purpose of this drill:

Purpose of this drill:

By definition, a valuable final product is something that can be exchanged with

8. commodity: a useful or valuable thing.

15. stake: personal or emotional interest, concern, or involvement.

Purpose of this drill:

1. What is a valuable final product?

2. Pick one of these situations, problems, or difficulties.

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