Show why we do what we do by M K THOMSON ph D WHY WE ASK EVERY SUCCESS FUL MAN THE SECRET OF HIS SUCCESS EVERY successful man Is besieged by admirers who are eager to learn the secret of his success his success may consist of any ing achievement A prominent citizen who readies the ripe age of four score years Is ap preached on each succeeding birth day by a corps of newspaper men and bombarded with questions calculated to uncover the secret of his long life he Is suo sed to know what made him live so long magazines that feature the life story of successful men in business have a tremendous circulation peo pie are eager to learn the secret jf success the ideal magazine hero starts life in a log cabin and rises to be a merchant prince a financial giant the implication Is that if he could do it with no education and no friends how much better off you and I 1 are with at least a fair start nothing succeeds ahle success we admire and envy the successful man because we too would like to be regarded as successes we like to read of such people because it has in value we naively assume that it we get hold of the secret we too may be as successful tills Is be cause we feel that possibly if we had the right password and could pull the light wires we have enough na alve ability to get there we want to know the secret of the great mans greatness not only that we might also become great by fol lowing the same methods but also because wac are curious to know the ins and outs of a colorful career this interest Is very much as the curt osley we have in knowing bow to solve a bazzle or a riddle it an owera the perpetual question v do they do it we try and full and then wonder how others succeed we conclude that either they are made of different clay or else they have some special secret we hope it Is due to some secret and not to superior native ability hence the eagerness to inquire of every successful man the secret of hla 0 by newspaper New paper syndicate n |