Show l I I Uncommon Sense By JOHN BLAKE IMPORTANCE IS MADE NOT BORN The measure of ot y your ur Importance Is i in the minds of or others Your estimate of ot it doesn't count If I a a. great number of or people think people think you oU are important you rou are import import- ant If I you alone think you are Important important important Im im- im- im you are mistaken Self important important Sel-important is a very general mental quality It I Is always injurious Never does the self important person deceive anyone but himself Almost Invariably ha ho handicap his own progress by his pompousness pompous pompous- ness and by his fatuous belief that he Is making an impression by byI I strutting about and talking takIng ponderous ponder- ponder ous nonsense I It is Js true tre that some very able men are self important But their theil self importance came after atter they Ila had demonstrated their ability and 1 was therefore in some small measure meas meas- smal I ure uro However most of ot the really raly important im im- im I people aro are not import self ant at at all al They may feel Import sel-Import- gratified I that they have havo e been able to do important im n things but they leave their praises to others who can sound II them fat far more effectively i There Thero is nothing which so q quickly disgusts ts an employer with wih a perI per per- person I son who is working fox for him as an air of ot undeserved self importance importance I a tendency to talk large and to lord It over people veople for no whatever reason If I self importance was was only an addition of the addIton weak minded it would i not be bo worth In I an editorial for little can be done for tor the weak minded But It Jt is too I often oten assumed by young people who who are are otherwise In- In and Ind who might get far tar on in iii the il world were wele ere It not for this thia obstacle to their success It I any ot of the readers l-aders of ot these articles find that they are basing basinger are t th that theIr er they estimates think ot of r themselves on they can do do or what hat what sonai they mean bean ilean to do or their personal per per- appearance or ther their personal fortunes instead of ot their own In- In It is time nd fd determination to get on on 1 they looked themselves over r o Critically I If they still important important-if 1 insist on being self self- nothing but a pompOus pom- pom mien n Can satisfy th them it m will h be to defer derer wi airs wel till the tho Assumption or tant has as Ul been something really realy important accomplished It vl will do no great harm and iii then from r the u high merely merey opinion detract t of ot a little other people But lf It it assumed in in youth Yoth there will wll b be bevery very little ver chance for anything any any- thing but et regret and fore tore the humility be before be- be scorn of others Copyright 1923 ot by John ohn in Blake age |