doubt that coddling will magnify this weakness. The victory lies in a fearless

frame of mind. Prof. Walter Dill Scott says: "Success or failure in business is

caused more by mental attitude even than by mental capacity." Banish the

fear-attitude; acquire the confident attitude. And remember that the only way to

acquire it is--_to acquire it_.

 

In this foundation chapter we have tried to strike the tone of much that is to

follow. Many of these ideas will be amplified and enforced in a more specific

way; but through all these chapters on an art which Mr. Gladstone believed to be

more powerful than the public press, the note of _justifiable self-confidence_

must sound again and again.

 

QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES.

 

1. What is the cause of self-consciousness?

 

2. Why are animals free from it?

 

3. What is your observation regarding self-consciousness in children?

 

4. Why are you free from it under the stress of unusual excitement?

 

5. How does moderate excitement affect you?

 

6. What are the two fundamental requisites for the acquiring of self-confidence?