How to Analyze People on Sight. Elsie Lincoln Benedict
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possess.
Therefore these are the most precious tools you can own. But like every
tool in the world and all knowledge in the world, they must be used as
they were built to be used or you will get little service out of them.
You would not expect to run a car properly without paying the closest
attention to the rules for clutches, brakes, starters and gears.
Everything scientific is based not on guesses but laws. This course in
Analyzing People on Sight is as scientific as the automobile. It will
carry you far and do it easily if you will do your part. Your part
consists of learning the few simple rules laid down in this book and in
applying them in the everyday affairs of your life.
Fewer and Truer
Many things which have been found to be true in almost every instance
could have been included in this course. But we prefer to make fewer
statements and have those of bedrock certainty. Therefore this course,
like all our courses, consists exclusively of those facts which have
been found to be true in every particular of people in normal health.
IMPORTANT
The Five Extremes
This book deals with PURE or UNMIXED types only. When you understand
these, the significance of their several combinations as seen in
everyday life will be clear to you.
The Human Alphabet
Just as you can not understand the meaning of a word until you know
the letters that go into the makeup of that word, you cannot analyze
people accurately until you get these five extreme types firmly in your
mind, for they are your alphabet.
Founded in Five Biological Systems
Each PURE type is the result of the over-development of one of the
five biological systems possessed by all human beings--the nutritive,
circulatory, muscular, bony or nervous.
Therefore every individual exhibits to some degree the characteristics
of all the five types.
The Secret of Individuality
But his PREDOMINANT traits and INDIVIDUALITY--the things that make him
the KIND of man he is--agree infallibly with whichever one of the five
systems PREDOMINATES in him.
Combinations Common in America
The average American man or woman is a COMBINATION of some two of
these types with a third discernible in the background.
To Analyze People
To understand human beings familiarize yourself first with the PURE or
UNMIXED types and then it will be easy and fascinating to spell out
their combinations and what they mean in the people all about you.
Postpone Combinations
Until you have learned these pure types thoroughly it will be to your
advantage to forget that there is such a thing as combinations. After
you have these extreme types well in mind you will be ready to analyze
combinations.
The Five Types
Science has discovered that there are five types of human beings.
Discarding for a moment their technical names, they may be called the
fat people, the florid people, the muscular people, the bony people and
the mental people.
Each varies from the others in shape, size and structure and is
recognizable at a glance by his physique or build. This is because his
type is determined by the preponderance within his body of one of the
five great departments or biological systems--the nutritive, the
circulatory, the muscular, the bony or the nervous.
At Birth
Every child is born with one of these systems more highly developed,
larger and better equipped than the others.
Type Never Disappears
Throughout his life this system will express itself more, be more
intense and constant in its functioning than the others and no manner of
training, education, environment or experience, so long as he remains in
normal health, will alter the predominance of this system nor prevent
its dictating his likes, dislikes and most of his reactions.
Effect of Eating
If you do not understand why the overaction of one bodily system
should influence a man's nature see if you can't recall more than one
occasion when a square meal made a decided difference in your
disposition within the space of thirty minutes.
If one good meal has the power to alter so completely our personalities
temporarily, is it then any wonder that constant overfeeding causes
everybody to love a fat man? For the fat man is habitually and
chronically in that beatific state which comes from over-eating.
The Alimentive's disposition, nature, character and personality are
built by and around his alimentary system. He is happiest when
gratifying it and whenever he thwarts it he is miserable, just as the
rest of us are when we thwart our predominant system.
The World Needs Him
This type has so many traits needed by the world, however, and has
such extreme capacity for enjoying life that the race, not to mention
himself, would profit greatly by his denying himself excessive amounts
of food.
Enjoyment the Keynote of This Type
The good things of life--rich, abundant food and everything that
serves the personal appetites--are the cravings of this type.
He purchases and uses more of the limousines, yachts and chefs than any
other three types combined, and gets more for his money out of them than
others do. The keynote of his nature is personal enjoyment. His senses
of touch and taste are also especially acute.
The Fat Man Loves Comfort
You can tell a great deal about a man's type by noting for what
classes of things he spends most of his extra money.
The Alimentive may have no fire insurance, no Liberty bonds, no real
estate but he will have all the modern comforts he can possibly afford.
Most of the world's millionaires are fat and Human Analysis explains
why. We make few efforts in life save to satisfy our most urgent
demands,