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Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave.,New York, May 28, 1910
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T
H E R E is no doubt but that a large percentage of the failures which occur among business and
professional men are due to the fact that the victims have undertaken work for which they are
temperamentally unfitted.
Men who are by nature fitted to be professional men are ofttimes switched by circum-
stances into uncongenial labor for which they have no appetite, and which often leads to failure.
In other cases men with good, clean-cut business talent are compelled to follow a professional
career for which they have no liking, simply because their fathers had a law practice or a doctor's prac-
tice and wished them to succeed to the business.
Incompetent business men who would have made excellent lawyers or architects, and vice versa,
are started on the wrong track to success simply through an early condition for which they are not
entirely responsible.
There is no denying the fact that many men do not succeed in life because they are misfits in
different trades and professions.
How can this be avoided?
By making an analysis of the traditions, inheritance and tendency of the individual.
If a young .man possesses an aversion to a particular trade, why should his father compel him
to follow it and simply-be out of touch with conditions and out of harmony with life?
It is true, a man of average intelligence can, by application and development, succeed fairly
well in any line of work to which he applies himself, but how much greater success would he make
if he selected a profession for which he has a special liking?
It is not all in the training, but something in the natural tendency.
Now, there are some men who can never become salesmen.
They haven't the tact—the ability—the mixable qualities, and they never will possess them, no
matter how hard they may strive to overcome certain salesmanship defects in their character; and, yet,
in some other line they might win golden spurs.
Now, if a man maps out his life's work in a career which.is distasteful to him, he is planning un-
wisely.
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It is true, he may win dollars, but surely the "acquirement.of money is not the whole aim of life!
. He misses the true happiness which comes through being in sympathy with the elements round
and about him.
There is a constant lack of sympathetic vibration, and his business nerves are being constantly
jarred by the discordant sounds which environ him.
It is true that a strong will power may overcome certain fundamental difficulties, but every man
has not a strong will power.
. And then there is a limit to what can be accomplished, even at that.
The average man commits a serious error when he permits himself to be forced into a trade that
does not afford him a reasonable pleasure while pursuing the ofttimes elusive dollar.
I have known men past forty—yes, fifty—who have, through bitter disappointment, thrown up
certain professions with which they had been identified for a long period, and engaged in entirely new
pursuits, but so completely were they in harmony with their new vocations that they not only won dis-
tinguished successes, but they obtained that for which they had long sought—satisfaction in seeing their
ideas developed and in being in complete touch with the elements around and about them.