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Show SELF-IMPROVEMENT QUIZ Good Friend? F OR A FULLLIFE,an individualneedsfriends. Psychologists and sociologists have been exploring various factors involved, and they have come up with some answers which can help explain our friendships. Take this true- (Sa — How do most people think of ourAgents? false quiz and learn what science says about friend-making. 1. You don’t make friends, you find them. 2. It’s important to establish friendships early in life because it becomes moredifficult at later ages. 3. Some people are allergic to friendship. 4. Manyfine friendships are one-sided. 5. The more two veople have in common, the better a friendship is assured. 6. When we meet someone whoseemslike a potential = Very happily. Then there’s training. All New York Life Agents receive intensive instruction when they join the New York Lite Agentis a full-time representative of our company. So you might say helping people toward a happierlife is his career. Sit down with one of our Agents. He'll be glad to discuss yourlife and health insurance needs. You'll be more than happy with the results, After “graduating” from our course, weencourage them to keep right on studying, too. , Andhere's a significant point: Every New York Life Insurance Company 51 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 1oo10 Life, Group and Health Insurance Annuities, Pension Plans. Our 125th year It’s not surprising. After all, New York Life Agents are very carefully chosen. Welook for above-average men and women who demonstrate a genuine concern for people. company. friend, we should always put our best foot forward. 7. Many ~eople live out their lives without ever getting to really know another human being. 8. Youcan’t have too manyfriends. 9. The best way to find friends is to be friendly. ANSWERS 1. True, Studies showthe sameprinciples are involved in finding a real friend as in finding a mate. In bothcases, whenyoufind someone whois right for you, the response is mutual—andoftenis instantaneous. 2. False. National Institute of Public Health studies show that elder people are more successful in making friends and their friendships are longer lasting. 3. True. Psychological studies conducted at the University of Florida show that some people fear a really deep involvement with another person. 4, False. Thelate psychiatrist, Dr. David Harold Fink, said that friendship is a relationship where, in order to receive, you must give of yourself. 5. False. Too manythings in common with another person—a bad temper, an irascible disposition—may hurt the friendship. 6. False. One of the most frequent reasons given by people for liking someone: “He’s so genuine—so completely himself. No pretense, no affectations.” 7. True. They reveal only their public selves to others. As a consequence, other people react the same way. 8. False. Everyone, as a leading behavior scientist points out, has a definite limit to the number of real friends he can do justice to. 9. True. It depends on two things: howpositive, op- The"happy life’Company imistic, and out-going your attitude is; and how much you circulate socially. Granted that friend-finding usually takes a bit of doing, can you think of anything that is more rewarding? —JOHN E. GIBSON 16 Family Weekly, March 15, 1970 |