Download Why we don't like people (1933) by Donald Anderson Laird PDF book

is an important book devoted to a new knowledge Personality. "Personality plus" is a thing that has been attributed to many successful people in and out of the business world all of us want to have it and Dr. Laird Hows that it can be acquired not in ten easy lessons, or in a correspondence course, but by knowing oneself and knowing the reactions of other people.No one yet knows how large a part of the population suffers from inadequate personality adjustment. The data already developed deals principally with the relation of personality to efficiency in business and this newer knowledge about personal analysis is being widely used to help individuals overcome personality handicaps from which even the highest skill and ability suffer.InE the author has carefully presented the important factors that are necessary to build personality and character. Furthermore, one is enabled to classify oneself by charts that have been prepared with an eye to the proper correction and aid to character improvement. A vast number of books have been written on how to enter a room, how to be a high-pressure salesman and the like, but no one has yet done a liberal and intelligent analysis of character and personality as is offered in. It is practically a handbook of personal psychology.TWO WARNINGS! First It will be most natural for you to think of other people as you read these pages. You will find your- self-neglecting to apply to your own life and affairs the new material you discover. But take warning! To get the full value out of this book you must think of how it applies, not simply to others, but to yourself even if it hurts to do so.Second As you become more familiar with this material you will discover that the insight it gives you into human nature will rob you of the inclination to ridicule or condemn the pettinesses of others. You will probably find your impulses of hostile criticism or contempt supplanted by a mild amusement at human foibles. If you wish to dislike people or be peeved by them you are warned not to read this book at all. But even in that case, it will be worth your while to learn from the preface something of the vistas which are being opened as the scientific worker examines under the microscope that elusive factor in our lives Personality.