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

the least impugn your intelligence or spoil your chances of a final victory. As I intimated in a previous chapter, our plan of campaign is really laid down before we are six years old, at a time when we are by no means in full possession of our mature critical faculties. You live your life according to your interpretation of the facts, and your plan of campaign, faulty as it may seem in the perspective of history, is always the best plan of campaign you could have devised. Our purpose is to provide something of an objective standpoint so that you may measure your relative distance from the ideal “ normal ” plan of campaign. Knowledge of the difficulties on the way is half the battle. If you have a mistaken strategy, you need not be involved in any conflict between your old strategy and a new and better approach to life. As soon as you really understand the mistakes of your approach, you will also understand the proper measures to straighten out your lines of attack. This is not a difficult task. It is easier, more practical, and more satisfactory to live a normal life. That is why it is the normal life. The Inter-relation of Human Problems If we consider human activities as a three-ring circus, with a number of side-shows, we can understand great numbers of our fellow-men, and a variety of occupations and activities in their true light. The so-called “ normal ”, courageous, well-adjusted individuals will be found doing their act ?? in the three main arenas, while the neurotic individuals will be found concentrating their attentions on the side-shows. Many of the normal performers will take excursions into the side-shows—and indeed this is a sign of normality. Rut the neurotics, the incomplete, inadequate men and women will barely touch the main arenas. An interesting confirmation of our thesis that the “ side-show ” artists understand that they are evading the realities of the three main rings, is to be found in the fact that neurotics are invariably busier in their