How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.
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at the head of the procession is the tangible crystalliza¬ tion of Mr. Johnson’s secret and unconscious goal in life. Driving at the head of the procession is a useful and necessary tool for a man in Mr. Johnson’s position. The Dynamic Concept of Character Character and personality are the sum total of all the tools, instruments and devices, habits, responses, emotions and feelings which an individual utilizes for the attain¬ ment of his goal in life. This dynamic interpretation of the meaning of character may be tested by the examina¬ tion of the living laboratory experiments which history and life itself offer to any sceptic. This dynamic point of view requires the assumption of no unseen, unknown forces which are beyond the measurement and under¬ standing of science. It is the modern answer to the outmoded devil-doctrine. Each of us, in striving for his goal, acquires a set of tools and a technique of using them appropriate to his ends. Much has been written in recent years about intro¬ version and extraversion, and these labels of certain character types have been accepted widely as explaining human conduct. If Mr. Adams prefers to spend every evening in his study reading Spinoza, if he is shy in company, if he avoids crowds, if he is inclined to worry about his aches and pains, and prefers studying calculus formulas to attending a football match, he is called an introvert. Mrs. Adams, on the other hand, cannot sit still with a book in her hand for more than half an hour, and is happiest on a golf links when there is keen competi¬ tion. She likes people, cocktail parties, driving a car, selling subscriptions for the little theatre movement in her suburb. Because she dislikes problem plays, philosophy, loneliness, the music of Bach, the novels of Marcel Proust, and cannot sit still at a lecture, Mrs. Adams is called an extravert. The labels introversion and extraversion describe a character but they do not explain it. Let us go back and