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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1916. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III THE STOCK-IN-TRADE OF THE PRACTICAL MAN--HIS DEVICES Patience and Good-Nature--Superficial Generosity--Intelligent Confidence and Intelligent Distrust--Knowledge of the Direction in Which One's Interest Lies When a man has acquired experience by remembering his acts and their consequences and by the example provided all about him by the actions of other people and the results of these; when he has acquired the habit of judging, of estimating, of being able to foretell what results such and such an action is likely to bring about, he is far along the road toward acquiring practical sense. He still needs a certain thing, however. The ability to put into practise the knowledge and perspicacity he has acquired from experience. 31 To acquire this art of applying his experience he will require certain particular qualities and methods. He will have to develop certain means. Every one has his temperament. In order to succeed, in order to triumph over circumstances, one often has to bring into subjection and to transform one's temperament. If this seems at first sight impossible, one must at least do one's best in that direction, putting one's trust in chance for the rest. One must learn to conceal one's feelings. The practical man can always do this when it becomes necessary. He will know how to hide his emotions and how to show them when it may be of assistance to him. He will, in turn, be kind, confident, patient, credulous, blind, when he judges it to be necessary. In the same way he will be hard, defiant, or dissatisfied in conformity with the occasion, the business in hand, the people engaged upon it, the events that take place, or the situations involved. All these methods that he must acquire, joined to his experience and his judgment, will be his stock-in-trade for achie...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151323750
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 26
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151323756
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 68 gr


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