The Questions & Answers.

This is truly the last section of The Master Key System.

This was the section in the original book in which Haanel answered questions from students of his correspondence course. There is a wealth of information here and it should not be overlooked.

So, we didn’t overlook it.

We made this episode of the Master Key Coaching Teleseminars the big Questions & Answers session.

Please enjoy what we reviewed.

Ready to jump into the Questions & Answers?

Let’s get it on!

“Hewers of Wood”

During our big Questions & Answers session, I reviewed questions from four sources.

* Haanel’s Questions & Answers

* Questions I received from the survey I did before I began these Teleseminars

* Questions I received via email

* Questions during the call

All of those made for a busy evening.

The first questions I reviewed was from Haanel’s Questions & Answers.

“Unless we are willing to think we shall have to work, and the less we think the more we shall work, and the less we shall get for our work.” Is it possible to conceive of a world in which there are no “hewers of wood?”

This question is asking what many of us ask today: Can there ever be a world without people who dig ditches or work the counter at McDonald’s?

In other words, what if everyone succeeded at doing what they wanted to do? Who would do the “grunt work”?

Haanel addresses the question thusly:

Thought has taken much drudgery out of work, but much so-called “scientific management” and “efficiency and engineering systems” look upon millions of human beings as mere machines capable of making so many motions less or more per hour.

To labor is to serve and all service is honorable. But a “hewer of wood” contemplates blind service instead of intelligent service. Labor is the creative instinct in manifestation. Owing to the changes which have taken place in the industrial world, the creative instinct no longer finds expression. A man cannot build his own house, he cannot even make his own garden, he can by no means direct his own labor. He is therefore deprived of the greatest joy which can come to man, the joy of achieving, of creating, of accomplishing, and so this great power is perverted and turned into destructive channels. He can construct nothing for himself so he begins to destroy the works of his more fortunate fellows. Labor is however, finding that the Universe is not a chaos but a cosmos, that it is governed by immutable laws, that every condition is the result of a cause and that the same cause invariably produces the same effect. It is finding that these causes are mental, that thought predetermines action. It is finding that constructive thought brings about constructive conditions and destructive thought brings about destructive conditions.

The “key” here is “blind service instead of intelligent service.” Now, this goes beyond the old — and tired — adage “Don’t work harder, work smarter.” Haanel is referring here to thinking. Plain and simple thinking instead of following.

Thinking is, as you know, one of the main skills you should acquire from studying The Master Key System. Here, Haanel is once again imploring us to think; to not just follow a recipe or dictums, but to really and truly think.

That being said, Haanel defines labor as the “creative instinct in manifestation.”

Instinct. That’s something at the root of it. At the core. It’s what drives us. It’s what produces the things around us.