I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.
'Study' was the cry that reverberated in the corridors of my mind. Study to enable yourself to face the arguments advanced by opposition. Study to arm yourself with arguments in favor of your cult. I began to study.
What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some kind of duress, or I chose to study them because they represented some kind of historical event, as it impacted on them or as they helped to create it.
My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.
And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing.
I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.
The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment unoccupied.
I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.
I always studied because I knew I had to. I needed to survive and take care of my mother.
Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you.