he wished to get control of a quick temper, or to rid himself of a
habit of lying, or stealing, or drinking, or any other defect which
prevented his being a whole man.

"What shall I do to get rid of it?" asks a victim. Think less of
yourself and more of others. Mingle freely with people. Become
interested in things outside of yourself. Do not brood over what is
said to you, or analyze every simple remark until you magnify it into
something of the greatest importance. Do not have such a low and
unjust estimate of people as to think they are bent on nothing but
hurting the feelings of others, and depreciating and making light of
them on every possible occasion. A man who appreciates himself at his
true value, and who gives his neighbors credit for being at least as
good as he is, cannot be a victim of over-sensitiveness.

One of the best schools for a sensitive boy is a large business house
in which he will be thrown among strangers who will not handle him with
gloves. In such an environment he will soon learn that everyone has
all he can do to attend to his own business. He will realize that he
must be a man and give and take with the others, or get out. He will
be ashamed to play "cry baby" every time he feels hurt, but will make
up his mind to grin and bear it. Working in competition with other
people, and seeing that exactly the same treatment is given to those
above him as to himself, takes the nonsense out of him. He begins to
see that the world is too busy to bother itself especially about him,
and that, even when people look at him, they are not usually thinking
of him.

A college course is of inestimable value to a boy or girl of
over-refined sensibilities. Oftentimes, when boys enter college as
freshmen, they are so touchy that their sense of honor is constantly
being hurt and their pride stung by the unconscious thrusts of
classmates and companions. But after they have been in college a term,
and have been knocked about and handled in a rough but good-humored
manner by youths of their own age, they realize that it would be the
most foolish thing in the world to betray resentment. If one shows
that he is hurt, he knows that he will be called the class booby, and
teased unmercifully, so he is simply forced to drop his foolish
sensitiveness.

Thousands of people are out of positions, and cannot keep places when
they get them, because of this weakness. Many a good business man has
been kept ba