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VOL. LIV. N o . 12. Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 373 Fourth Ave., New York, March 23,1912
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ECENTLY I was present when a departmental manager in a large house lost control of his
emotions to such an extent that he gave a display of ill-temper which really must have
prejudiced every salesman against him who listened to his tirade.
How can such a man expect to control and direct human forces when he himself fails to
keep proper rein upon his own tongue or emotions?
Moreover, how can any man accomplish a success in any undertaking when he is unable to control
himself?
Before we can control our destiny, even in the small degree in which most of us ever succeed in con-
trolling it, we must first be able to control ourselves—the thoughts—the words—the deeds that help to
make up the daily experiences of life.
It is easy to fall into the habit of constantly losing one's temper, and once the habit is formed it be-
comes somewhat difficult to overcome it.
A bad temper is not a pleasing asset for anyone, and I have noticed that a man who displays these
terrible breaks does not improve in his habits as he grows older.
Of course, there are times when every man will break away under certain pressure from any kind of
self-control.
All those infrequent breaks or lapses are an inseparable part of human life, but what I refer to is
an hourly or daily display of bad temper.
It frets the man himself and it irritates all those about him.
We are largely creatures of habit and when such a habit is formed it is rarely ever outgrown, for
every time a man is seized with the impulse to voice his bad temper he acts on that impulse and by
and by he becomes known as a man who is always venting his spite upon someone, and, of course, those
under him, because the men above will not stand for such exhibitions of temper.
It is simply an abandonment of the law of self-control, and to make a success in any undertaking we
must first be able to control ourselves, and the only way that this power can be obtained is through the
mastery of self.
There are plenty of men who have opportunities every day and every hour to vent their spite—disap-
pointment—their dissatisfaction of service rendered by those under them; but suppose every man
followed out his inclination at all times in this particular, do you think that so many business establish-
ments would be moving in harmony? I do not.
The man with a grouch has no particular place in this world.
Men do not like him—his fellow beings shun him because they do not seek the society of men whose
volcanic eruptions of temper make them disagreeable Upon the slightest provocation.
Understand, I do not mean that a man should go through life without displaying emotion or with-
out outbursts of temper.
I do not, but the one man that I cannot stand and whose society I avoid is the man who is.always
fault-finding and complaining and who pounds his desk as if he would break a hole in it when giving
exhibitions of temper to those under him. Such a man is unmistakably a boor and a bully.