Human nature in business; how to capitalize your everyday habits and characteristics . ght we couldexpress ourselves in good high-brow English. PoorMcFarland had scarcely any education at he drank some, was unkempt in appear-ance, and looked more like a tramp than a repre-sentative of a great daily organ of progress andenlightenment. I doubt if he could have con-structed a grammatical sentence. He collected hisfacts and telephoned them to his office to be writ-ten. And, as I have said, he obtained facts thatthe rest of us overlooked—largely because of hisability to maintain the re
Human nature in business; how to capitalize your everyday habits and characteristics . ght we couldexpress ourselves in good high-brow English. PoorMcFarland had scarcely any education at he drank some, was unkempt in appear-ance, and looked more like a tramp than a repre-sentative of a great daily organ of progress andenlightenment. I doubt if he could have con-structed a grammatical sentence. He collected hisfacts and telephoned them to his office to be writ-ten. And, as I have said, he obtained facts thatthe rest of us overlooked—largely because of hisability to maintain the respect and esteem of JimWilliams, the policeman. Its this way, somebody suggested one night,as a disgruntled quartet of us sat in the reportersroom at the central police station, Williams is astolid sort of big cop, not of very high lives on about the same intellectual plane asMcFarland does. Naturally they have a gooddeal in common. That set me to thinking. I made up my mindto get in with Policeman Williams on some basisof amity and equahty which would lead to a free. Finding the Keynote 169 exchange of ideas and knowledge. I sat down andtried to think what I would enjoy talking about ifI were a policeman forty-two years old and weigh-ing two hundred and forty-seven pounds. Obvi-ously, he would probably care little about Chaucer,dramatic sequence, the binomial theorem, or thenebular hypothesis. I would have to get down tosome of the more elemental things of life. Well,I went out and tried him on a number of topics,which included: baseball, politics, horses, prize-fighting, and physical culture. The only good re-sponse I got—the only positive reaction, as theysay in scientific circles—was from the latter topic—physical culture, or how to keep ones self inthe pink of physical condition. Williams was atrifle vain about his physique. He gloried in hisstrength. Yet I found that I was still a trifle shyof hitting the nail right on the head. I felt certainI was ge
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