s hustling world; and you will never be a success.
Pitfalls for the Doer
On the other hand if you are content to do what other men dream about
and never have dreams of your own you will probably always have a berth
but will never have a million. You will exist but you will never know
what it is to live.
The Hungry Philosopher
The extreme Cerebral can sit on a park bench with an empty purse and
an empty stomach and get as much pleasure out of reflecting on the
"whichness of the what and the whitherness of the wherefore" as an
Alimentive gets out of a planked steak. Needless to say, each is an
enigma to the other. Yet most people imagine that because both are human
and both walk on their hind legs they are alike. They are no more alike
than a cow and a canary.
His Frail Body
The extreme Cerebral type finds it difficult to do things because, as
we have seen, he is deficient in muscle--one of the vital elements upon
which activity and accomplishment are based. This type has little
muscle, little bone, and little fat.
Deficient in "Horse Power"
He is not inactive for the same reason that the Alimentive is; his
stomach processes do not slow him down. But his muscles are so
undeveloped that he has little inward urge toward activity and little
force back of his movements. His heart and lungs are small, so that he
also lacks "steam" and "horse power."
He prefers to sit rather than to move, exactly as the Muscular prefers
to be "up and doing" rather than to sit still.
The Man of Futile Movements
Did you ever look on while a pure Cerebral man tried to move a kitchen
stove? Ever ask the dreamer in your house to bring down a trunk from the
attic?
Will you ever forget the almost human perversity with which that stove
and that trunk resisted him; or how amusing it looked to see a grown man
outwitted at every turn by an inert mass?
"I have carried on a life-long feud with inanimate things," a pure
Cerebral friend remarked to us recently. "I have a fight on my hands
every time I attempt to use a pair of scissors, a knife and fork, a
hammer or a collar button."
His Jerky Walk
Because he is short the Cerebral takes short steps. Because he lacks
muscle he lacks a powerful stride. As a result he has a walk that is
irregular and sometimes jerky.
When he walks slowly this jerk is not apparent, but when hurried it is
quite noticeable.
Is Lost in Chairs
The Cerebral gets lost in the same
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