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Show YOU CAN WHIP NERVOUSNESS After we'd spent an hour together in his hotel room, this man and I, I was almost as nervous as he was. During that hour he had paced up and down, his hands shaking, his eyes glancing furtively to all corners cor-ners of the room. I don't need to tell you, do I, how Ineffective a personality he was? You know, of course, that nervousness nervous-ness is fatal to a personality, yet nerve specialists tell me that three out of four persons "wear their nerves on the outside of their clothes." Take the most successful person you know, the one with the most effective ef-fective personality. Was not that person a serene person? Some men and women tell me that they are nervous because they were born nervous. I think the man who had the most calmness and serenity I have ever known, when I commended com-mended him upon these things, remarked re-marked that he wasn't born with them at all. He -said he had to acquire ac-quire them. "Up till three years ago I was the most nervous person in the world," he told me. "Then an old doctor put me on the right track. He advised me, each night when the day's work was done to go home, take a leisurely hot bath, put on pajamas and get into bed for twenty minutes, not to sleep, but merely to relax all over." That practice not only robbed him of nervousness, but made him much more effective in everything he did. |