Show LETS TALK ABOUT it BY CHARLES B ROTH tact A daily need one of the chief qualities of those whom you like and admire is a quality known as tact chances are that in your lifetime you ve very few men and women who were completely tactful but haven t you known scores and scores who were not you know the kind I 1 mean men and women who always are saying untactful things that make you un happy that fill you with doubts about yourself that give you moments when you wonder whether there Is such a thing as a kindly person in the world tact is without doubt the essence of charm graciousness and of gentleness but do y you on know what it is it s merely the Percept perception aon of what to do or say under delicate or biffl cult circumstances that 3 a defini tion of tact but tact is much more than a definition really tact Is really a way of life you can t be tactful unless you are thinking about other people about what they like about their rights and feelings more than you thins think about your own the real value of tact in your life Is that it relieves tension and glosses over situations that might endanger friendships or cause you to lose self respect in the eyes of other pers persons ons it if you have tact you balance both sides and never willfully offend an other person at the risk of appearing untactful let me tell you that no one ever Is born with tact but everyone who ever had it acquired it and you can acquire it just as easily and just as surely as anyone else can do you want to know how I 1 ve already hinted at that earlier in this article I 1 hinted at this when I 1 said that if you wanted to be tact tul ful you bad had to think more about the other person than you think aboul yourself and that s the advice I 1 am going goin 9 to give you now think of that other person try to see his viewpoint try to see what his likes and dislikes are ask yourself what you would do if it your respective roles were reversed and then when you express yourself either by word or action express yourself in tinsel fishiness fish ness in the way yon you think he would like yon you to t L |