How to Analyze People on Sight

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If you do not you will never succeed in this line of work.


Thought it Would Do Him Good

One incident will serve to illustrate the foregoing test. A young man
asked us if he could succeed as a public speaker. He had decided to
become a lecturer and had spent two years studying for that work.

"Do you enjoy talking? Do you like to explain and expatiate? When out
with others do you furnish your share of the conversation or a little
more?" were the questions we put to him.

To all of the questions he answered "No."

"But I thought this was just the line of work I ought to go into," he
explained, "I have always been diffident and I thought the training