Article May 29, 1937 Issue

Our Lifework

[Written Especially for Young People]

ALICE CORTRIGHT

The choice of a useful occupation and of proper means and methods of training is a pertinent problem for many young people. Even to those with outstanding talent come the arguments that there is little demand for their line of work, that the field is already overcrowded, the remuneration insufficient; and other arguments too numerous to mention. Other young people entertain the discouraging belief that they have no talent or aptitude for any special line of work, and so they are tempted to plod along indifferently and unhappily, deprived of the joyous expectancy of finding their right activity and its reward.

Sometimes the difficulty is not so much lack of talent as it is of right personal evaluation and initiative. An instructor in a radio speech, cautioning his audience against a formal and self-conscious approach to the microphone, said, "Remember a smile can be heard over the air." Then, how much more may one's mental attitude be discerned by those with whom one comes in direct contact!

In popular psychology we hear much about introversion and extroversion, which, of course, means one's interest turned inward on one's own thoughts and outward toward external things. In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 369), Mrs. Eddy speaks of psychology as "the Science of Spirit, God;" and elsewhere in the same book (p. 518) she says, "Blessed is that man who seeth his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another's good."

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