How to Analyze People on Sight

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muscular element in that individual's makeup.


His Powerful Movements

Forceful, decisive movements also characterize this type. He is
inclined to go at even the most trivial things with as much force as if
the world depended on it.

Recently we were exhibiting a small pencil sharpener to a muscular
friend. It was so sharp that it performed its work without pressure. But
she took hold of it as if it were a piece of artillery and pushed the
pencil into it with all the force she had.

When we remonstrated smilingly--for her face and hands are
ultra-square--she said, "But I can't do anything lightly. I just
naturally put that much force into everything."