vive" in terms of being an effective, acceptable, compatible
personality.
And especially note the word: «first." You must
first "fit in", adjust, cooperate, participate and conform in
your relations to your family, home, neighborhood, job,
business environment. You first must make whatever ad-
jushnents are necessary to make you acceptable. That gets
you "in" on the best possible terms. Do otherwise and
you just won't be accepted; you'll arouse opposition, antag-
onism-and reap a harvest of trouble.
Then, having first made whatever adjustments
are necessary to conform to the established requirements
of your environment and thus having been accepted as a
welcome part of the group-you can put the second prin-
ciple of "survival" into effect and begin the process of
improvement.
Let's look at these two principles of "survival"
in a specific instance. Let's assume that you have been
promoted to a position of executive responsibility in your
business. IT you start out by not adjusting to your new
environment, if you do not conform to the expectations of
those who promoted you, if you do not cooperate, partici-
pate, "fit in", make yourself an acceptable part of the man-
agement team-you will not "survive" in your new job. Not
doing what is required to be "in", you soon will be "out"-
because you violated the first principle of survival: first
... adfU8t to your environment.
Now, let's suppose you use this first principle
of survival. You adjust to all of the requirements of your
new job environment; you do everything to conform fully