THE POWER TO PLEASE

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12, 25 March 1909, Page 477

THE POWER TO PLEASE

If you wear a bulldog expression, if you go about , looking sour and disagreeable, you must not wonder that you are not popular. Everybody likes pleasant faces. We are always looking for the" sunshine, and we want to get away from the clouds and gloom. If you want to be popular you must assume a -popular attitude. Be sunny and cheerful, helpful and kind. The great thing to draw people to you is to make them feel that you are interested in them. It is useless"" to do this for effect. You must be really interested, or the deception will be obvious. If you avoid people you must expect them to avoid you; and if you always talk about yourself you will find that people will move away from you. You do not please them. They want you to be interested in them. The power "to please is a great success asset. It will do for you what money will not do II 11I 1 It is astonishing how much you can learn from people in social intercourse when you know how to look at them rightly. But it is a fact that you can only get a great deal out of them by giving them a great deal of yourself. The more you radiate yourself, the more magnanimous you are, the more generous of yourself, the more you will get back.