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Show Let' Explore Your Mind j Is There Still Truth in Old Saying, 'There's Plenty of Room at Top?' 1 By Albert Edward Wiggdhi, D.Sc. ; Aimwrr to Qurttlon No. 1 1. Y '3, only it Is not M roomy ns'tt uird to be and tha top 1 farther from the bottom. In his articles Walter B. Pitkin sums up the qualities most essential for moving up from the bottom whether you reach the top or not. Health, high energy, persistence, per-sistence, thoroughness, high technical training, social sense, self Knowledge, understanding, adaptability, willingness to work a long time at jobs that (require less than one's best abilities, wide acquaintance with Commit . nity affairs and wide acquaintance acquain-tance with people. This about covers Ihe subject and, as Vocational Voca-tional Counselor Johnson O'Connor O'Con-nor she ws, everyone has a surprising sur-prising amount of all these qualities qual-ities if he will only believe in and de ,'elop them. Answer to Question No. t 2. They are not as Ttkely to be for Ihree reasons: First, most women expect to marry and are not as wrapped up In their jobs as are' Tien; second. If they have no prospects of marriage they often 1 eel life Is rather futile and th'y are getting nowhere; third. If they are married they often I eel they are doing two jobs working at the office or factory and keeping house besides. be-sides. Men are not bothered by these feelings and oonstder their job as their life w irk. Answer to Question No. 1 .1. True as gnsprl. How students stu-dents do hate the prof, who makes them think! The old codger is just a plain brute. If I (an sui;ar-coat my own lecture i so the audience can get shortci ts to my ideas (without having to think them through, they t link the lecture lis fine; but If I pile up lot of facts and ask them to think them through and get their real meaning mean-ing w?ll, I am set down as a dull, uninteresting dub. That is why the really Important books 'on economics, heredity, sociology. sociol-ogy. History, political science,, etc., are read only by the few who really like to think. |