How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.

colleagues makes him an inhuman slave-driver toward his employees. No one loves a “ high-pressure go-getter Hate and hurry bind him to the beauties of life. At the end of the day he is exhausted by his unobjective work methods, and he seeks relaxation in brutish amusement which he often pursues in the same graceless way. His relations with people are tainted with egoistic ambition. He cannot be interested in anyone who is not immediately useful to him. Members of the opposite sex are similarly exploited for purely selfish ends. One of the characteristic indicators of this type of individual is the so-called holiday neurosis ”. Many men and women are perfectly happy while they are at their job and can sense a certain success in driving them¬ selves and others to the fictitious goal of “ success ”. But a holiday is a tragedy to the ambitious “ go-getter ”. If possible he remains at work. If he cannot work, he mopes and broods and despairs, is irascible and bad- tempered because he has not prepared for anything in life but an onslaught on his business. These people have no friends with whom to pass the time, and no hobbies to absorb their creative energies. They have developed neither the patience to read books nor the disinterestedness to enjoy nature. Sexual contacts are valued as mere physiological exercises and have no more emotional interest than so many evacuations of bowels and bladder. Consequently no sexual intimacy can relieve their sense of isolation and depression or help to recreate their fatigued energies. 1 he holiday neurosis is an epitome of what happens to men and women who “ succeed M as a result of putting oyer the strategy of massed attack on the work sector. Not infrequently a man of this type develops a veritable genius in his chosen profession or activity, by virtue of one-sidedness, persistence in training, and complete disinterestedness in the rest of the world. Occasionally he reaches the very pinnacle of success and attains the envy and admiration of his friends.