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Show FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS Py CD, Smith Be 'Yourself And Be A Winner (" I ALWAYS SAY THeS t WRCHSI& THINGS you it you have a quiet personality personali-ty or if you are more outward. But people can generally recognize recog-nize a false front and forced enthusiasm. en-thusiasm. The chances of winning win-ning people over and of making and keeping friends are much greater when one acts "natural" rather than "affected." W ihould, of course, $till work to improve our personality. If we are quiet, we should make the effort to enter a little more into the spirit of things. A good way to become a better conversationalist is by acquiring acquir-ing an interest in people. Most people peo-ple are ready and willing to talk about themselves. If we learn to be a good listener, and work at it, then gradually we become a better talker, as well. Every day that we live we grow older; and we should grow wiser. Each day brings new experiences and new challenges and if we meet these challenges with the right attitude we constantly increase in-crease our confidence and develop devel-op better personality. If 70a have a teenage problem jou want to discuss, er an observation to make, address yonr letter to FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS. NATIONAL NATION-AL WEEKLY KEWSPAfEB SERVICE, SERV-ICE, fRAMtrOBT, KI. A teenager asks: "How do you develop a 'winning' personality? I try hard to make people like me. but sometimes my efforts at being the life of the party only make me appear foolish. I talk too much, or I say the wrong things, or things that . are misunderstood." mis-understood." Some teenagers are blessed in that they never have personality problems or difficulty in getting along with people. But the majority have to work at it. A "winning" personality can be developed, de-veloped, but as in the case of our friend above, one can work too hard at it. There is an old saying which points out the fact that the best way to make people like you it to "be yourself." This (i quite true. When, we try to pattern ourself after someone some-one we admire for one reason or another, an-other, we have to be careful that we do not make ourself look foolish in the process. A "winning" personality is not a particular type of personality, but instead it is merely the ability abili-ty to "win" people, or to make them "like" you. People can like |