SELF=IMPROVEMENT

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3822, 16 October 1936, Page 9

SELF=IMPROVEMENT

“Personal efficiency,” by Percival R. Cole, is a stimulating instructive book. In clear- concise language the author explains how each on of us can add to his or her efficiency in miany ways—in acquiring skill, in observation, in reasoning, in study, in speech, in written expression, in leadership in business habits, in appreciation of the arts, in knowledge and in action. “Efficiency is not absolute but relative,” states the author. “It is a thing of which no one has any monopoly . . . Personal efficiency mlay be. said to depend upon two factors, heredity and environment. Heredity contributes our nature, and the environment and factors contribute 'to our nurture. Our heredity or .nature we cannot improve, although it has been wittily remarked that everyone should choose his parents wisely. Part of our nurture, too, has passed beyond our control; bijt plart remains in our power, and it is through wise self-nurture or self-education that our efficiency can be improved.”