Practicality, how to acquire it by R. Nicolle Free PDF self Help book

Practicality, how to acquire it by R. Nicolle Free PDF self Help book

How to be practical

Excerpt from the introduction:

Practicality is the sense of seeing things as they are and of doing things as they ought to be done. Specifically, it is defined as the science of being skilled in the application of means to attain particular ends, especially in dealing with the common affairs of life. The author of this book defines Practicality appropriately as "An inexhaustible wonder-working currency accepted everywhere." True Practicality is acquired through the exercise of good nature, patience, insight, and perspicacity, and by experience.


It is the application of Tact to daily life; for tact captivates, fascinates, even anticipates, and by so doing lightens the burdens we have to bear and thus plays no unimportant part in the economy of life. In this work Practicality is presented as consisting of judgment, attention, perception, patience, perseverance, will, decision, finesse, and foresight. One may possess these qualities without knowing how to apply them — in this book the author shows the reader just how to do so to his advantage. He points out that the man who possesses foresight and the ability to concentrate his mind; whose perception is keen and judgment sound; whose decision is firm; whose will is strong, and whose determination is power — only he who commands these qualities and can apply them advantageously at the psychological moment, is Past Master of Practicality.


Self-control and self-reliance are the beginnings of practical wisdom. True strength springs from the mastery of self which, with self-reliance, equips and sustains us for the trials that life compels us to endure. But the self is everyone's own worst enemy. Therefore, he who would become a power in Practicality must first become master of himself. He must dominate himself before he can hope to dominate others. To point out how to do this, and how to benefit thereby is another of the tasks undertaken by the Author.

Content of the book:

CHAPTER PAGE

Preface . . . . . . y x . iii

PAET ONE

Practicality: It's Stock in Trade

I. What is Practicality? 11

Of What Element is This Veritable
Science Composed?

II. Experience. 23


Whence Comes It?— Of What is it Composed? — Perspicacity — Insight.

III. The Stock in Trade of the Practical Man — His Devices: Patience and
Good Nature; Superficial Generosity;
Intelligent Confidence and Intelligent Distrust;

Knowledge of the Direction in Which One's Interest Lies 31

PAET TWO

Practicality in the Daily Life of
Man, Woman, and Child


I. The False Practical Sense — Errors in

Foresight 51

II. The Practical Sense in the Struggle

for Life 62

III. Nations and Peoples with the Practical

Sense 81

IV. Woman: Has She the Practical

Spirit? 99

V. The Practical Spirit in the Child. 118

PAET THEEE

Practicality: How to Acquire it

I, How to Acquire the Practical Sense. 131
Conclusion 143






Author: R. Nicolle
Translated by Francis Medhurst, 

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