Psychology considered as the science of human behavior is concerned
with man's response to the impressions made upon him by objects,
people, and events. They make up the situations that he meets.
Behavior--the individual's way of dealing with these situations--if
not a complete failure, results finally in some sort of adjustment
to the conditions in which one lives; and this adjustment
culminates in social and moral habits, in habits of work, in ways
of thinking and acting; in short, in habits of life. And through
all the adapting process runs the influence of physiological
conditions, and the effect of their changes caused by the manner of
life and the advance of years. The adjustment may be mechanical and
rigid, insensible to misfits, without power to readjust as
conditions alter; or, again, it may be flexible and
adaptive--capable of new adjustments as circumstances change. This
adjustment represents the capacity of man for achievement. It is
his efficiency--the strategy and tactics of life. It is well, then,
from time to time to take an inventory of stock and try to discover
the significance of the facts and principles of human behavior
which investigation has revealed. Concerning the more common
matters of every-day life, however, psychologists have offered
relatively little of interpretative value. Yet these experiences
make up the day's work. They determine its quantity and quality.
Much has been written about making others efficient, but
comparatively little about one's own method of thinking, working,
and acting. Yet knowing oneself reaches far into success and
failure; and there is no other way of understanding the behavior of
others. It is, therefore, in the hope of interpreting a few of
these personal experiences of daily life that this book is written.
The topics that could be discussed extend far beyond the limits of
a single volume. The choice, of course, is largely personal, but
the writer has tried to select types of conduct, as well as phases
and causes of behavior, that are fundamental to thinking and
acting, whether in the life of social intercourse or in the
business and professional world. And, after all, thinking and
acting determine achievement.
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