How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.
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trace the character patterns of both Mr. and Mrs. Adams to determine whether we can find why Mr. Adams has chosen one set of tools, and why Mrs. Adams has'chosen tools of an entirely different nature., It will be well to remember that you cannot really judge and evaluate any character trait unless you can fit it into an entire personality pattern. Just as a melody cannot be judged by a single chord, so a personality cannot be understood by the analysis of a single character trait. Although it is true that we can often make very shrewd deductions about the childhood situation of an individual when we see him sitting quietly beside his fireplace in the company of a volume of philosophy while everyone else in the house is dancing, and we can often reconstruct his probable goal in life, such deductions are usually dangerous unless one is a well-trained psychiatrist. It is better to follow the laws of mathematics and remember that it requires several points to determine the course and formula of a curved line. The amateur student of psychology and of human nature will do well to check his findings and his deductions when he thinks he has discovered the pattern of an individual by adducing further psychological proof that he has correctly evaluated his style of life. Introversion and Extraversion As a matter of fact when we investigate Mr. Adams’s early life we find that he was a very weak and sickly child. For years he was practically an invalid because a congenital heart condition compelled him to rest in bed for a considerable part of every day. He felt his weakness keenly in competition with other children. When his playmates were playing football he stood on the lines and watched because his doctor had forbidden any unnecessary running or exertion. He was frequently taunted for not participating, and often children laughed at him, when he explained that his doctor had forbidden him to play, because externally he looked like a very