Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-08-20 | Page 18 | Let's Explore Your Mind

LETS LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND ND Avoid Tasks Too Big dig for Yourself Failure Develops Habit of Failure By Bv Albert Edward Wiggam Answer to Question No 1 1 Psychologists maintain thIS is s their tendency A weak man longs for a strong person usually person usually a woman of course course to to lean Jean on to protect him from Irom the worlds world's hard knocks Likewise some strong women are ore looking for just this type of masculine lover Florence Florence Flor Flor- ence Seabury In her fine book on love says that weak men seem to rouse in strong women the mother nother feeling the feeling the desire to take cart care of them This makes the weak nUn map feel he is quite a man he-man and h hero o to conquer and win her Answer to Question No J 3 2 In all oll probability it would have made her far worse Failure nearly always makes us feel inferior in in- and self That is h the reason why parents should try to avoid giving children task tash too big for tor them It tends tend to develop the habit of failure When we build a school curriculum at i which about half the children wll wU foil fail before they r reach ach the eighth grade that is precisely what lt We Weare e eare are are doing doIng building building up the habit of failure Probably the mother felt pretty sure Eleanor could c uld learn to dance sent her to a dancing teacher Answer to Question No I t 3 It Is Js certainly A eo pleasant thing to learn that there seems to tc be a strong tendency for u us U Uto t to learn and remember pleasant words rather rother than unpleasant one ones Psychologist E. E A. A Davis analyzed zed words used by children and found they used 1057 pleasant words to every 80 unpleasant ones one Another psychologist found children chile chil dren learn pleasant pleasont words earlier than unpleasant ones Still another psychologist found adults use far more pleasant than unpleasant words I think it means we all try to make this world a pretty pleas pleass ing place to live in If you find yourself using many disagreeable words better take a a. tumble to yourself