How to choose the right vocation : vocational self-measurement based upon natural abilities the mental ability requirements of the fourteen hundred vocations ... with 720 self-testing questions / by Holmes W. Merton.

  • Merton, Holmes W. (Holmes Whittier), 1860-
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[1917], ©1917
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    Why? His Imagination began to play philosophic- ally over the influences of one body over another, and the principles of gravitation were formulated for the benefit of mankind. The dancing of a tea- kettle lid incited Watts’ Imagination and the steam engine was conceived. Jules Verne gave reins to his Imagination and people delighted in his seemingly impossible narratives, ‘‘ Around the World in Eighty Days,’’ and ‘‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.’’ Marconi’s Imagination challenged the unheard of—the sending of mes- sages without a visible medium—his ‘‘Reason’’ sus- tained Imagination and through the exercise of his ‘‘Inventive’’ and ‘‘Construction’’ abilities, the seemingly impossible feat became an every-day oc- currence. Not only must the dramatist, novelist, artist and inventor possess large Imagination ability but some considerable degree of this ability is essential in many strictly commercial vocations. ° The Imagination ability to ‘‘Put Yourself in His Place’’ on the part of the employer and the em- ployee is a powerful factor in establishing that harmonious relationship which means faithful, loyal service given the employer, due personal recogni- tion and the opportunity for advancement given the employee. A man without Imaginative ability may make a conscientious clerk, but he will never become a ‘‘constructive salesman.’’ The renowned fashion- makers of Paris—men, chiefly—are good illustra- tions of applied Imagination ability, applied to per-