Production is the basis of morale.

I’ve heard it said that as “source” I should handle something way outside my general activity.

If one can get a unit producing and actually accomplishing worthwhile production, then their morale will rise.

This is a confusion between SOURCE and CAUSE.

Thus, it does not matter too much how one starts a unit producing so long as it does get started.

You are CAUSE over your area. Results are the effect of your own efforts. When these support general programs we all win.

I was given a good example of this with just one person who has been on MO lines. She is actually well now. She is miserable. There is nothing wrong with her at all except she is out of the action and is not producing anything.

You should not minimize yourself as CAUSE. It Is your greatest ability.

This has been noted in other fields. The “idle rich” are the most miserable people you ever wanted to meet. “To Have and Have Not” or some such title by Hemingway talks about it for the best part of a book.

Being blamed sometimes blunts Being Cause. But if one’s total ambition is to be blameless the best situation is to get one’s name on a tombstone. And it’s no fun being dead.

Being CAUSE over matter, energy, space, time, force, form, location and life is just another way of saying “OT”.

[Note: The original mimeo copies of this policy letter incorrectly labeled it as “Esto Series 41” which has been corrected above.]