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Show On to Success With It Comes Boldness in New Ideas ; Our Sphere of Friends and Activities Expands A POOR salesman may be a genius at gardening; an indifferent in-different stenographer sometimes never suspects her own gift for cookery, for dress design, for ability abil-ity to pick up foreign languages. By thinking candidly about yourself, your-self, by being as friendly to yourself your-self as you would be to another, you can often draw up a picture of your tastes, abilities, desires end hopes which will astonish you. Take an inventory of yourself, paying special attentio to the things you like but which you have little of in your daily life. Then start putting them into it. From Interest to a Specialty Often ws have to begin slowly reading, or finding courses of instruction in-struction within our means, or working out a program for ourselves our-selves in solitude; but every day something can be done toward the new way of living. It can grow from an interest into a hobby, from a hobby into a side line, from a side line into a specialty. Then comes the day when the unsatisfactory un-satisfactory work can be given up (to someone who will find it as satisfying and as absorbing as we find our own new field) and success suc-cess is at last really and noticeably notice-ably on its way to us or we are on our way to it. Vitalizes Character Then living begins to be fun. We meet people with the same tastes, not just the chance acquaintances who come our way in an uncon- genial profession. Having succeeded suc-ceeded once, we begin to show a little daring; we try new ideas more boldly, and our world of friends and activities expands even more. Chances we couldn't even imagine until we got inside our real work turn up on every hand. Best of all, even a small success has a vitalizing effect on character. That is the most interesting discovery dis-covery that success brings in its train: those who are livuig successfully suc-cessfully make the best friends. They are free from malice and spitefulness. They are not petty. They are full of good talk and humor. hu-mor. Dorothea Brande in Cosmopolitan. |