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18. Opposite every one of the underlying qualities place a plus (+) if you feel you possess the characteristics conveyed in the word or phrase, and a minus (−) if you feel you are lacking in this respect:—

Good Health

Love of work in which engaged

Energy

Sympathy

Imagination

Self-Control

Self-Confidence

Memory

Will Power

If you have more of the minus than the plus element in your results, it means that you are lacking in the very fundamentals of possible success, whatever be your aim in life. But if you can place a plus against the first three, you are on the high road to the development of all that follow — for, as insisted upon to the point of being wearisome, interest-power is the one agency for unfolding mental gifts and formulating character.

Below we give a selection of possible questions which serve to bring out those weaknesses—and “strengths”—which may be hidden as well as those that are more obvious. Self-catechizing is looked upon as humiliating, and disrespectful to one’s dignity—at least it is by some who would be all the better for a closer knowledge of their own natures.