EFFECT SCALE
A scale that shows how much a person dares cause by measuring how much he is willing to have happen to him. At the top he can give or receive anything. At the bottom he will not receive anything at all, yet still feels he must have a total effect on everything else.
From the AOGP Abridged Scientology Dictionary — based on original LRH source materials, updated through 1982.
Usage
Someone who cannot take the mildest criticism but insists on running everything around him is low on this scale. What he can put out and what he can take are two ends of the same thing.
Why It Matters
Willingness to be affected turns out to be the limit on how much a person can cause. The scale makes that relationship visible and measurable.
Related Concepts
- TONE SCALE — A scale measuring and relating the various factors of behavior, emotion and thought to levels on the scale.
- RESPONSIBILITY — The concept of being able to care for, to reach or to be; the ability and willingness to be cause.
- HAVINGNESS — The concept of being able to reach.
- PAN-DETERMINISM — Broad determinism: The action of determining not only one's own actions, but the actions of others as well, especially to determine the activities of two or more sides of a game simultaneously.
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