The Ladies' home journal . Technicolor crew how to set up theircameras. One of the lessons I learned later—andan important one—was how to listen, really listen,to those who know more than I. Very few youngpeople listen at all: they use the time when some-one else is talking to figure out what they will say next. If I were 21, Id aim high; mere security is toopoor a bargain to strike with life. But Id aimaccurately, and after a lot of self-examination, tobe quite sure I was embarking on the thing Iwanted most of all to do. That little preliminarystep of cleaning out the mental drawers and setti
The Ladies' home journal . Technicolor crew how to set up theircameras. One of the lessons I learned later—andan important one—was how to listen, really listen,to those who know more than I. Very few youngpeople listen at all: they use the time when some-one else is talking to figure out what they will say next. If I were 21, Id aim high; mere security is toopoor a bargain to strike with life. But Id aimaccurately, and after a lot of self-examination, tobe quite sure I was embarking on the thing Iwanted most of all to do. That little preliminarystep of cleaning out the mental drawers and settingyour thoughts and hopes in order is the most im-portant step in a persons whole career. For theworld is confusing, if we let it confuse us. Ifwere sure of what we want to accomplish, we canavoid adding to its confusion; we can keep a littleundisturbed px>\ of peace inside ourselves. Miss Dunne belongs to the concentrate-earlyschool, as you see. But what about a man whohas had three careers (Continued on Page i55). C,t.\WK. I,l<l-;. al 21, di<hit have a college degree, was niar-rie«l. Now she sajs, Pd gel a cx»llege education. And I woulddo this particidarlj if I intended marriage with n« career.
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