HOPE FOR BRAINLESS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 13 January 1928, Page 5

HOPE FOR BRAINLESS

SUCCESS AND LUCK

AMERICAN PROFESSOR'S VIEWS

Professor Joseph Jastrow, head of the department of psychology in Wisconsin University, addressing the Institute of Arts and Sciences of Columbia University, lately, declared that brains were not essential in the struggle for material" success in America. "Success is generally due to a combination <<! lucky circumstances and outside influence," said Professor Jastrow. "One has to use only enough brains to keep one from standing in the way of success. We have greatly overemphasised the value of intelligence in business and in other affairs of everyday life. Many have achieved success without undue display of mental* activity. "We read 'success magazines,' hoping to find the way to win our own fortune. We. do not gain a great deal of help, but we read about fortunate individuals who have invested blindly and become rich overnight; then we find that they arc only ordinary dull folks after all. Good brains, as a matter of fact, are not common. "Older people spend a considerable time criticising the younger generation, forgetting what went on in their own minds when they were children. Voung people should not ho expected to be stupidly rational all the time. All people must blow off a little steam now and then, and the son and daughter have more excess stoam than the father and mother."