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You May Be a Genius OMEONE has said: Genius is dictatorial without knowing it, obstructive without wishing to to be, intolerant unawares, and unsocial because it cannot help it.” Right away someone jumps up and exclaims, I’m a genius!’ We are not printing the above quo-tation to furnish anyone with an excuse for being bossy or for always being on the contrary side, or for thinking that he knows it all and that other persons are therefore surely wrong, or for holding himself aloof from his fellow beings. Upon discovering the consistency of this attitude, we inquired of said person, and she gave us this comment: “In a public meeting, somebody has to be obtrusive or the matter will not be thoroughly thrashed out, and action may be taken hastily without due consideration for all of the things at stake. I have made it a lifetime policy always to be obtrusive. Therefore I have been thoroughly disliked and hated in public more than anyone about me—and I have had a glorious time!” If the above characteristics constituted all that there is to genius, we would advise our friends to knock genius over the head with an “alley apple” whenever they see it popping up in their lives. Bu ' let’s stop a moment and conside ' the above elements of human nature. How often almost anyone is inclined to be dictatorial! Sometimes, if we look back at a week or month of our associations with others in the home, or at business, or in social relationships, we can see instances wherein we actually were dictatorial, without knowing it. There are more geniuses than this world has been given credit for, if being unsocial because of timidity puts one in that class. Many people will discover, as the horses did when automobiles first came out, that familiarity will breed con tempt for anything of which one is at first afraid. It will not take a great deal of acting for a very long period for a person who feels that he cannot be sociable to cultivate many sociable instincts and habits. It merely requires constant practice as occasion affords, or as opportunity can be made. But for the most part, people know when they are assuming this attitude. To recognize a fault is the first step in overcoming it. Stop a moment and think. Are you ever dictatorial in situations wherein you have no right to be? The next point in the quotation is that genius is often obtrusive, without wishing to be. We once knew a person who always took the opposite side of a question being discussed, especially if it were an aggressive program of advancement. Anyone can be a genius in a certain sense. By resolving to watch themselves in relation to the above undesirable characteristics, and by constantly endeavoring to cultivate the last one or sociability. That is, after a given period of time of such effort, they can look back and see what great progress they have made. The effect in just a little effort will be so miraculous that one will feel like exclaiming to himself because of his success: “Why, you certainly are a genius!” • -
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AN ANALYSIS “That man surely has been a success in life. “Well, as a golfer he certainly has plenty of lie abilities.” FULL OF RUNS “I think these stockings I have on are like a bit of art.” “Viewed from the back they’re like opera music.” “How’s that?” “Full of runs.” ------o------- BET HE MEANT HORSES He: “I’ve made up my mind to know all about the races.” She: “Horses or men?” SYMPATHETIC “I was just taking a little beauty nap.” “Oh! It’s too bad I disturbed you.” — o---------- Wifie: “Did you hear those knocks on the table? What could have caused them?” Hubby: “There’s a piece of wrapping paper lying on it, I see.” THEY DON’T WEAR ANY “Are you opposed to petticoat government?” “Absolutely! Keep all women out of politics but the flappers.” THE GREAT DANE “Did you know Shakespeare devoted one of his plays to a dog?” “No, which one?” “His play about Hamlet, the great Dane.” -------o------ HAD FIGURED ALL RIGHT Mary: “Have you ever figured in any gripping situations?” May: “Oh, been hugged a fe times.” PAGE 11
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