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Old 01-20-2012, 09:44 AM   #43
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Default Re: The LRC Lexicon — Common Phrases

As an analogy, imagine if I wanted to help people understand marriage better in order to improve married life. But suppose instead of talking about all the aspects of marriage, I just chose to talk about all the ins and outs of physical contact. Suppose I went into great detail about how nerve endings fired and hormones were released and circulation increased and on and on. But I gave just cursory coverage of other aspects of marriage. Suppose this is the way I taught for my entire counseling career and my followers listened to no one but me.

Would my teaching help them? No doubt they would have a great understanding about physical contact. But their view of marriage would be distorted. It's very possible I would actually damage their experience of marriage rather than help them, even though in some sense they had more understanding than many people.

This was what Lee did with his economy teaching.
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