Thoughts to Build On

shrinking. And you don't have to be a Marine General
tp do it.
You can be an elderly, quiet, courteous, dis-
tinguished gentleman like Bernard Baruch, who calmly
and wisely advised six Presidents. Let wise, thoughtful
Bernard Baruch advise you, too. He said, "No man can
humiliate or disturb me. I won't let him." That's how to
block out resentment before it upsets you emotionally.
Just don't let anyone humiliate or disturb you.
Your physical body has a built-in "thermostat"
which maintains an even body-temperature of 98.6 degrees
no matter whether the temperature outside your body is
below freezing or a sweltering 120 degrees. Consciously
hold "mental pictures" before your subconscious mind, vis-
ualizing yourself as having an "emotional thermostat" which
maintains your emotions at a pleasant, even "emotional
temperature" of relaxed, undisturbed serenity-no matter
how frigid the snubs or how heated the personal attacks
you inevitably will encounter from time to time. Just simply
do not respond nor react to the emotional storms swirling
about you, but be as emotionally unconcerned as "the
ticking of a clock during a thunderstorm".
Another way to avoid developing feelings of
resentment is to adopt the life motto of the great French
philosopher, Montaigne: "A man is not hurt so much by
what happens as by his opinion of what happens." Don't
make a mountain of resentment out of the molehill of some
snub or irritation. Don't ''bleed'' emotionally from every
insulting "cut". If somebody tries to do a ''hatchet job"
on you, don't let the hatchet make even a dent in your
composure and disposition.