The Ability to Be - an article based on the works of L. Ron Hubbard

Now, there you would think, “Well, gee! Life is not serious now. And you should take life seriously.”
But is it more fun to be in a play—a production on a stage—or to work in a meat market sweeping up the floor?
Would it be more fun to play the part of the disreputable janitor in the meat market on the stage or to play it down at the meat market? Now, which place would you enjoy most? Down in the meat market, you know, you have to make it survive and keep it standing by and go through the same motions and so on and so on and so on, and on the stage, you have an audience.
Some people can do a superlative role and enjoy just being the role without any audience at all. When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, you’re in good shape.

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