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Editorial
October 15, 1909
Camas Prairie Chronicle
Cottonwood, Idaho County, Idaho
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John A. Howland argues that excessive egotism is a subtle and insidious disease hindering young men's success in business, urging self-examination and honest external opinions to combat it.
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EGOTISM MOST INSIDIOUS DISEASE.
By
John A. Howland.
An old friend of mine, a pastmaster in the art of business on a scale involving millions of dollars and thousands of men, insists that one of the greatest handicaps of the young man in business life is an excess of egotism. He admits that a certain stimulus of egotism may be necessary and natural to youth, but long ago he made up his mind that he preferred the young man lacking in egotism to the young man afflicted with an excess of it.
It is one of the subtle characteristics of egotism that it operates in ways making it impossible that the egotist himself shall have the least practical line upon its results. In taking the egotistical point of view to himself the young man constitutes himself the judge of all his accomplishments. Some one else is paying him for services which he is required to render to the satisfaction of that employer, but under the influence of his own egotism that young man may find that suddenly he has assumed the attitude merely of pleasing himself. And it is one of the marked tendencies of the position that the further the egotist goes in this direction the easier he finds it to satisfy his own vanity.
Get a line on yourself if you can find reason for suspecting yourself of tendencies to egotism. Get the opinion, too, from some person or persons who will hand you the truth as they see it. You can't afford to take the risk of the disease.
By
John A. Howland.
An old friend of mine, a pastmaster in the art of business on a scale involving millions of dollars and thousands of men, insists that one of the greatest handicaps of the young man in business life is an excess of egotism. He admits that a certain stimulus of egotism may be necessary and natural to youth, but long ago he made up his mind that he preferred the young man lacking in egotism to the young man afflicted with an excess of it.
It is one of the subtle characteristics of egotism that it operates in ways making it impossible that the egotist himself shall have the least practical line upon its results. In taking the egotistical point of view to himself the young man constitutes himself the judge of all his accomplishments. Some one else is paying him for services which he is required to render to the satisfaction of that employer, but under the influence of his own egotism that young man may find that suddenly he has assumed the attitude merely of pleasing himself. And it is one of the marked tendencies of the position that the further the egotist goes in this direction the easier he finds it to satisfy his own vanity.
Get a line on yourself if you can find reason for suspecting yourself of tendencies to egotism. Get the opinion, too, from some person or persons who will hand you the truth as they see it. You can't afford to take the risk of the disease.
What sub-type of article is it?
Moral Or Religious
What keywords are associated?
Egotism
Business Success
Young Men
Self Reflection
Vanity
Moral Vice
What entities or persons were involved?
John A. Howland
Old Friend (Business Expert)
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Excessive Egotism As A Business Handicap
Stance / Tone
Cautionary Advisory
Key Figures
John A. Howland
Old Friend (Business Expert)
Key Arguments
Excess Egotism Handicaps Young Men In Business
Egotism Prevents Self Awareness Of Its Negative Effects
Egotists Judge Their Own Work Instead Of Satisfying Employers
Seek Self Reflection And Honest External Feedback To Avoid Egotism