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Show For some , time he has been inducing individuals to play what he calls a game of ' Utopia," w hie h " involves selecting "baggage", for a trip to an imaginary paradise. From a long list of supposedly desirable items such as athletic activities, physical beauty, card games, conversation, food, loafing, marriage, music of all kinds, puzzles, reading, religious worship, shows, etc., he has induced them individually to rate each of these items atvarious levels of desirability from 0 to 10. Which would they most like to take with them? His finds are so much like those of the personologist; that each individual has a remarkably distinctive dis-tinctive pattern of likes and dislikes. dis-likes. No two preference lists resemble each other in more than a few items; and the differences between two individuals are never trifling. He goes on to say, as do thousands of others now that personology is better known, people have neglected the inborn differences." The learned Doctor Williams, head of the Clayton Foundation of the Biochemical Institute and former president of the American Chemical Society; goes on to say: we differ in ''gross and microscopic mic-roscopic anatomical variations; differences in blood and body composition, com-position, differences in enzyme levels; differences in endocrine activities; differences in excretion patterns; differences in responses to drugs and chemicals; and, differences in nutritional needs." The differences are not 25 to 50 per cent but "actually 500 to 1000 per cent." Says he, "We are different even in our bones." "Enriching people's lives," he adds, "is a more complicated process than may be imagined. In order to enrich people's lives we need to know what their potentialities are and what kinds of enrichment they can take." This is precisely what the personologist is trained to understand and do. He treats every person as an individual for that is exactly what he is and there is not another like him from one end of the universe to the other. Each An Individual Arthur M. Richardson At the University of Texas is a most remarkable man, , Roger J. Williams who has for years been gathering knowledge about human beings. The learned doctor comes up with some startling facts every so often. |