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Show : wtyWcDo What We Do : I by M. K. THOMSON, Ph. D. I WHY WE ARE NEVER SATISFIED NONE of us Is completely satisfied. Before we get what we want we think we are going to be thoroughly happy, but always there Is something ahead of us that we are looking forward for-ward to. Complete satisfaction means stagnation, stag-nation, death and decay. There Is no greater spur to achievement than the desire to reach a notch higher In the social scale, In one's profession, In expanding ex-panding a business, In making money, or whatever It Is that we are striving striv-ing for. We are never satisfied, because we live In an Imperfect. world. No matter how far we may go In any line of activity there Is always room for Improvement Im-provement The average man thinks he would be satisfied If he could run a hundred yards In ten seconds. But the athlete who can run It even a little under ten seconds Is all the more eager to run It Just a little faster. " The more we have the more we want; the more we can do the more we want to do. Dissatisfaction Is a mark of ability and ambition. It Is often the mark of progress. The man who alms at a target on the ground close by may hit It with ease while the man who alms at the sun shoots much higher although al-though he will miss his target by a big margin. There Is less chance for perfect satisfaction sat-isfaction for a man of skill and ability than for the poor fellow who has nothing and can do nothing. The English philosopher, James S. Mill, must have sensed this psychological truth when he said, "It Is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; it Is better to be a Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." () by McCluro Newspaper Syndicate.) O |