The cure of self-consciousness / by James Alexander.

  • James Alexander
Date:
1915
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Credit: The cure of self-consciousness / by James Alexander. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    One day, in the ordinary way of business, he had occasion to call at a certain bank to see the manager on an important matter. He was taken into the manager’s room and there sat the bank official, now manager, who had caused him so much distress at the commencement of his business career. The wheels of time bring many changes. The man- ager of the bank was faced by an individual very different from the Mr. A. of former days. Mr. A. had acquired an attitude of strength, self-reliance, self confidence, an atmosphere of self-possession, calmness and steadiness of manner, that influenced all with whom he came into con- tact. He had complete control over himself, and his words appeared to be measured out, and carefully adapted with a definite purpose to the matter in hand. The manager of the bank was also a very different man from the young bank official of Mr. A.’s early busi- ness days. The complexities and worries connected with his position had told upon him. He was nervous, apprehensive, incapable of sitting still; he seemed ill at ease in the presence of this self-controlled, self-possessed man of business. Mr. A. felt with a sense of inward pleasure that their positions were now reversed. It was the bank-manager who was now distressed and showed the painful signs of the self-conscious state of mind. How had Mr. A. gained such control over himself? How had he conquered his self-consciousness? He had made a thorough study of the matter. He recognised that it was as necessary to master the self-conscious state of mind as it was to master the intricacies of business. He spared no effort, no expense, to acquire a knowledge of himself and the best means to control that self, and now he regarded that knowledge as his most valued possession. Are YOU—you who read this book—self-conscious ? If so do you really wish to cure yourself of it? If you do
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