Part 13 (1/2)
Emotional Liabilities.
- The lack of emotional fervor and enthusiasm prevents this type from impressing others.
Business a.s.sets.
- Keeping his word, orderliness and system are the chief business a.s.sets of this type.
Business Liabilities.
- A disinclination to mix, the inability to adapt himself to his patrons and a tendency to hold people too rigidly to account are the business handicaps of the Osseous.
Domestic Strength.
- Constancy and faithfulness are his chief domestic a.s.sets.
Domestic Weaknesses.
- Tightness with money, a tendency to be too exacting and dictatorial, and to fail to show affection are the things that frequently prevent marriage for the Osseous and endanger it when he does marry.
Should Aim At.
- The Osseous should aim at being more adjustable to people and to his environment in general. He should try to take a greater interest in others and then show it.
Should Avoid.
- Indifference and the display of it, solitude and too few interests are things the Osseous needs to avoid.
His Strong Points.
- Dependability, honesty, economy, faithfulness and his capacity for finis.h.i.+ng what he starts are the strongest points of this type.
His Weakest Points.
- Stubbornness, obstinacy, slowness, over-cautiousness, coldness and a tendency to stinginess are the weakest links in people of the extreme Osseous type.
How to Deal with this Type Socially.
- There is little to be done with the Osseous when you meet him socially except to let him do what he wants to do.
Don't interfere with him if you want him to like you.
How to Deal with this Type in Business.
- As an employee, give him responsibility and then let him alone to do it his way.
Then keep your hands off.
Don't give him constant advice; don't try to drive him.
Let him be as systematic as he likes.
When dealing with him in other business ways rely on him and let him know you admire his dependability.
Remember, the distinguis.h.i.+ng marks of the Osseous, in the order of their importance, are PROPORTIONATELY LARGE BONES FOR THE BODY, PROMINENT JOINTS and A LONG FACE. Any person who has these is largely of the Osseous type no matter what other types may be included in his makeup.
CHAPTER V.
The Cerebral Type.
”The Thinker”
All those in whom the nervous system is more highly developed than any other are Cerebrals.
This system consists of the brain and nerves. The name comes from the cerebrum or thinking part of the brain.
Meditation, imagining, dreaming, visualizing and all voluntary mental processes take place in the cerebrum, or brain, as we shall hereinafter call it. The brain is the headquarters of the nervous system--its ”home office”--just as the stomach is the home office of the Alimentive system and the heart and lungs the home office of the Thoracic.
Your Freight System.
- The Thoracic system may be compared to a great freight system, with each of its tributaries--from the main trunk arteries down to the tiniest blood vessels--starting from the heart and carrying its cargo of blood to every part of the body by means of the power furnished by the lungs.
Your Telegraph System.
- But the nervous system is more like an intricate telegraph system. Its network of nerves runs from every outlying point of the body into the great headquarters of the brain, carrying sense messages notifying us of everything heard, seen, touched, tasted or smelled.
As soon as the brain receives a message from any of the five senses it decides what to do about it and if action is decided on, sends its orders back over the nerve wires to the muscles telling them what action to perform.
Your Working Agents.
- This latter fact--that the muscles are the working agents of the body--also explains why the Muscular type is naturally more active than any of the others.
Source of Your Raw Materials.
- The body may be compared to a perfectly organized transportation system and factory combined. The Alimentive system furnishes the raw materials for all the systems to work on.
Stationary Equipment.
- The bones of the body are like the telegraph poles, the bridges and structures for the protection and permanence of the work carried on by the other systems of the body.
Now poles, bridges and structures are less movable, less alterable than any of the other parts of a transportation system, and likewise the bony element in man makes him less alterable in every other way than he would otherwise be. A predominance of it in any individual indicates a preponderance of this immovable tendency in his nature.
Mind and matter are so inseparably bound up together in man's organism that it is impossible to say just where mind ends and matter begins. But this we know: that even the mind of the bony person partakes of the same unbending qualities that are found in the bones of his body.
”Every Cell Thinks”
- Thomas A. Edison, as level-headed and unmystical a scientist as lives, says, ”Every cell in us thinks.” Human a.n.a.lysis proves to us that something very near this is the case for it shows how the habitual mental processes of every individual are always ”off the same piece of goods” as his body.