Part 8 (1/2)

The opposite of this weakness is a feature in our ownadvice is advertising the fact of his uncertainty of his own actions Your great proble that separates the sheep frooats, and success froh problems for yourself, and to make decisions for yourself

The law of coain, for in proportion as you have self-reliance and good judgment your success will be o about seeking advice, you will get two kinds of advice--First: the advice that concurs with your own preference or decision; and, second, the kind that is in opposition to your views You accept the first kind because it tickles your vanity, and you throw aside the second, saying the advice is prejudiced

Don't ask advice Size up and weigh the proble

The businesson any responsibilities or without tackling ress

The ht, frothy literature all the tiination, the kind that leaves no per should be like eating, we should have the dessert as well as the substantials It would be a great mistake to eat dessert alone, and it is certainly amatter alone

One of the priht Few things will dissipate thought asof newspapers

The newspaper starts in with the first page, and by the tie you may have read a hundred articles, each one of these articles touching on a different line of thought The daily newspaper contains cliht The daily newspaper gives us statistics, sorrow, laughter, criamut of the scale of human experience

The ht frequently interrupted, side-stepped, drawn, cut off and dispersed

Abundant evidences are at hand where the book reader acquired the daily newspaper habit and reads the daily to such an extent that it is impossible for him to read books thereafter He has broken his continuity of thought, and when this happens book reading is impossible

Everyone should read two or three orbook, whether history, story or co lines that will hold one's interest One should read one book after another of this sort as a dessert for his dinner, as it were, but along with it he should eat substantial food in the nature of substantial reading

Do not read yourself to sleep at night over a light novel Read your novel for an hour or so; then take up your old philosopher or scientist and read a page, or as ht clearly expressed so that it will be burned into your ht will remain and will be of service to you in years to come

Read daily newspapers scantily Read ites of Congress and the important events of the day Go over the head-lines, if need be, and eli stories of criet into the habit of reading the details of horrible crimes and bad iings and murders They are weeds in the ht

Re you read depresses or elevates, and in proportion as you accustom yourself to read substantial ress in this world, and have a flood of thoughts at your co for clean-cut expressions

You rite better letters, you will converse better, you will enjoy social intercourse better if you read helpful reading ly

Argument

Not once in a thousand tiuet if you do convince the other felloill not coy expended on the other nine hundred and ninety-nine tiainst his will and he is of the sahty lot of difference between argu your case into one or two good reasons and telling your adversary that you will not argue the case, but you will let hiically you will have no fear of his conclusion, for truth ument itself is a footless proposition, it is infinitely ument is with those of less mental calibre than your own, for by the law of conorant, he makes up in perversity and lack of analytical ability