How to Analyze People on Sight

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capacities and _aim for the big chance_.


Causes of Misfits

Various influences are responsible for the misfit, chief amongst which
are his loving parents. Many fathers and mothers, with the best
intentions in the world, urge their children to enter vocations for
which they have no natural fitness whatever. These same parents often
discourage in their children the very talents which, if permitted to
develop, would make them successful.

Such a child has small chance in the world if it happens that his
parents are sufficiently well-to-do to hold the purse strings on his
training. Not until he has failed at the work they choose for him will
such parents desist. When they finally allow him to take to the work he
prefers they are usually surprised to see how clever he is.