Analyzing Character: The New Science of Judging Men; Misfits in Business, the Home and Social LifeBlackford, Katherine M. H. (Katherine Melvina Huntsinger)
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Analyzing Character: The New Science of Judging Men; Misfits in Business, the Home and Social Life
Blackford, Katherine M. H. (Katherine Melvina Huntsinger)
Characters and characteristics; Success
When you have learned what certain physical characteristics indicate,
practise observing these indications amongst the people whom you know
well. Try your skill at making the connection between the indication and
the characteristics which, according to the science, it indicates. For
example, go over in your mind all of the blondes you know and trace in
their dispositions and characters, as you know them, the evidences of
volatility, love of variety, eagerness, exuberance, positiveness, and
other such characteristics. Take careful note as to how these qualities
manifest themselves; observe differences in degrees of blondness, and
corresponding differences in the degrees in which the characteristics
indicated show themselves. Observe, also, how the various characteristics
manifest themselves in combination. For example, note the difference
between a blonde with a big nose and a blonde with a small nose.
ANALYZE, CHECK UP AND VERIFY
When you have analyzed yourself and your relatives, friends and
acquaintances, you will be ready to begin on the analysis of people
previously unknown to you. You will find them everywhere--in street-cars,
in stores, on the streets, in churches and theaters, on athletic fields,
in offices, in factories, in schools and in colleges. When you have
analyzed them as carefully as you can and, if possible, have written down
a brief outline of your analysis of them, check up and verify; find out
how far you have been right. If, in any case, you find that you have been
mistaken, find out why--study the case further. You have already
demonstrated and verified your principles; therefore, either you have made
an error in your observation or you have reasoned illogically in drawing
your conclusions. Find out which it is and correct your analyses--then
verify them.
This is a practice which, if you are at all interested in human nature,
you will find intensely fascinating. It is one which you can pursue for
years and not find it monotonous. Not a day will pass, if you are diligent
in this practice, in which you will not learn something new, something
interesting, something valuable. Those who have studied and practised this
science for many years are, almost without exception, the ones who are
most eager and enthusiastic about making these observations, analyses and
verifications.
STUDY TYPES
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