The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-07-13
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.

The above Is the title of an article in
the July Woman's Home Companion tha1
gives excellent advice to timfd people Ii
there is any class of people in the world
to be pitied 1t is such as never seem
to have confidence in anything they
do or say They are shrinking and nm
i'd, always fearing criticism. To believe
In oneself Is to make other people pc
lieve in you. If you send for physl-
clan and he comes with a difident. timld
manner into the sick room, you at once
lose confidence In him; but If he comes
cheerful and smiling with a confident air
of knowing just what is the matter with
thu patient, you are at once inspired
with courage and feel a load of anxiety
lifted from off your heart.
If YOU are a close observer you Will find
only those people who believe in them
selves ever are the ones who make a
success in life.
Faith in oneself causes a determination
to succeed in whatever one undertakes,
X one fully believes they will accomplish
a certain mission or task which they
have set themselves they Will work with
energy. being determined to make the
world believe in them as they believe in
themselves The writer IN The Home
Companion gives an amusing experiment
OF a psychologist with timid chicken.
His story Of q timid chicken and how
It was trained to bravery points les
son 70 the dffident.
Tile chick was so timid that he ran
from the least intrusion. If another chick
picked al him, he ran. II he was jostled
hy- his brothers in a scramble for food
he withdrew from the scramble out OF
pure fear. But the psychologist set about
teaching him TO believe in himself. By
enticing the other chickens with food he
made them run from the tuid chick.
Presently the chick began TO run after
them; and as they ran away when he
chased. he believed that they were afraid
Of him. and courage famed in his breast,
Little by little he got Drawer, and he
chased harder He was so set up that he
hogan to attack the others IN front as
well as in the rear. He was so used ia
have thcm run from him that he had
forgotten what 1t was to be afraid. He
became 2 fighter. and in the end the
others ran from him in earnest He
was Just the same chicken, so far as
his physical powers We're concerned-tha:
Is the same in relation to the other
chicks. Only one thing had changed
now he believed in himself and the hen
yard was his OYSTER
This is certainly gOOd lesson IOf
the tin1id. which class by far outnumber
the believers in themselves. The writer
goes on 10 say:
Human beings are not very different
from chickens. If you are afraid OF the
world. the world Will misuse you. If you
march vaMantly forward, it will retreat
before you If you take the word fail
out of your bright lexicon, you do not fail
It all lies In what you believe you can
do. Believe, then, in yourself. Never fear
failure or hesitate to do a thing be-
cause you think you would not succeed.
Just grid yourself up. and go after what
you want and In nine cases OUT OF zen
you will get it,
IF everyone would follow this advice
there would be fewer failures and many
more successful people in this world. 1t
IS well indeed to take the word fall out
of your dictionary.