Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-27
NEW DISCOVERIES
ROW You Can Know if You Are as
Good as You Think.

mere are few persons who are will
ing To admit that they are as careless
as forsetful as susceptible to fiatterv
as VAN, and as immoral as their
nelShDors and enemies believe them
10 De. When you think about your
Sell at all, you feel that your superb
ofity TO other people has been hidden
under bushel Unkind fate seems to
always keep down your best qualities.
so that the world fails to appreciate
You. You know that if you had the
luck that Smith had, you would be
as distinguished man, as great an
authority. as ingenious a fellow and
as popular as he is. You are sure
Your work is as good. your energy as
great. your memory is much better,
and your judgment is as clever and as
quick as his. Yet Smith is aeknowl-
edged to be a leader of men while you
must cling unknown to your own
fireside
These thoughts scurry through the
minds of most people, who secretly
chafe at their hard luck as they
cali it. because opportunity has not
come their way. Yet as a matter of
fact, if the newer psychological tests
are made upon them and upon Smith.
it will at once be plain that what is
usually called hard luck" or lack of
opportunity" is after ali merely the
difference between your instincts. dis
positions. temper, habits and charac-
ter and his.
Your neighbors and enemies eXag
gerate your defects and their own viz
tues, while you see and magnify your
own abilities and underestimate theirs.
To-day, however, thanks to such
psychologists as Professor John Wat
son. Johns Hopkins, and Professor
Hugo Munsterberg, of Harvard, if you
really wish to be just to Smith and
sincere with yourself. you can apply
| certain psychological experiments to
Yourself and to others and test your
| judgment. reasoning powers, will and
memory Thus you may find out how
| strong your mental, faculties may be
and how weak your will has become.
| If YOU desire to discover your ability
| to pay attention to unfamiliar or UNI
| interesting questions that might prove
| important at some future time ana
| vou, like most persons, pride yourseif
| upon your attention which is very bad
"a sample psychological test is made
| in this way: Bits Of pasteboard are
| cut into squares, circles. trangles,
| rectangles. half moons, crescents,
| stars. octagons and some fifteen diff
| ferent shapes Words of one syllable
| such as rat cat hat, dog, pin, and the
| like are typewriter upon them. The
figures are then placed fiat with a
cloth over them. Then you or the oth-
er person to be tested are warned to
concentrate your Intention on the
shapes only and at a given signal the
cloth is lifted for five seconds and
| then quickly replaced You must
then take a pencil and draw each
| shape that you remember and insert
the words YOU saw on them. Then the
experiment is repeated with the aavice
y TO pay attention TO the words ana MOI
i the forms.
The result will then show Whethei
! vour attention is of the narrow type
! or the broad type. If it is narrow
j Won win in the first test remember nc
! words and in the second no forms
!; According to the number of words
that YOU also recall in the hrst test
and the number of triangles, squares
and circles in the second. VIII the
breadth of your attention be meas
ured. That is to say, ability to pay
attention to more than one thing al
a time is thus estimated. According
IN the result you are fitted to be