How to Analyze People on Sight

About this eBook

Author

Benedict, Ralph Paine, 1874-1941

Title

How to analyze people on sight through the science of human analysis : the five human types

Credits

E-text prepared by Mark C. Orton, Woodie4, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis

Subject

Characters and characteristics

Category

Text

eBook-No.

30601

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30601

Release Date

December 4, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.HOW TO ANALYZE PEOPLE ON SIGHT — WE THANK YOU — DEDICATED TO OUR STUDENTS
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.What Leading Newspapers Say About Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Her Work
4. 4.It's not how much you know but what you can DO that counts
5. 5.Human Analysis—The X-Ray — Reaction to Environment — Learn From the Sagebrush — Moving Won't Help Much — Understand Yourself and Others — Primitive Problems — Civilization's Changes — Causes of Failure — Mastering His Own Environment — Facing New Enemies — The Modern Spider's Web — Adapt or Die — Externals Indicate Internal Nature — Significance of Size, Shape and Structure — Differences in Breed — The Instinct of Self-Preservation — Interrelation of Body and Brain — Movies and Face Muscles — Tells Fundamentals — Learning to Read — Reading People — Only a Few Feelings — Thoughts Bring Actions — Physiology and Psychology Interwoven — The Evolution of the Jaw — Inheritance of Acquired Traits — Law of Size — Jaws Becoming Smaller — Meaning of the Big Jaw — Exhibit A—The Irishman — Natural Selection — Built to Fit — Survival of the Fittest — Causes of Racial Characteristics — Types Earlier than Races — Five Biological Types — These Rules Work — Do What We Want to Do — Preferences Inborn — Follow Our Bents — "Took It" From Grandmother — Man No Mystery — The Hold of Habit — Significance of Fat, Bone and Muscle — Succeed at What We Like — Enthusiasm and Self-Expression — Learn to Drive Your Car — Five Makes of Human Cars — Can Not be Deceived — Are You a Ford or a Pierce? — Superficialities Sway Us — Bicycles in Congress — Don't Judge by Veneer — The Real Always There — Causes of Crime — Find Your Own Type — Knowing and Helping Others — The Four C's — Read CONCENTRATEDLY — Observe CAREFULLY — Decide CONFIDENTLY — Practise CONSTANTLY — These Rules Your Tools — Fewer and Truer — IMPORTANT — The Five Extremes — The Human Alphabet — Founded in Five Biological Systems — The Secret of Individuality — Combinations Common in America — To Analyze People — Postpone Combinations — The Five Types — At Birth — Type Never Disappears — Effect of Eating
6. 6.CHAPTER I — The Alimentive Type — "The Enjoyer" — Physical Rotundity — The Fat, Overweight Individual — Small Hands and Feet — The Pure Alimentive Head — The Round-Faced Person — The Man of Few Movements — The Fat Man's Walk — Spilling Over Chairs — Clothes for Comfort — Susceptible to Cold — How the Fat Man Talks — Doesn't Tell His Troubles — The Fat Man "Lives to Eat" — Visits the Soda Fountain Often — The Deep Mystery — Fat-Making Foods — Why They Don't Lose Weight — An Experiment — A Short Life But a Merry One — "I Should Worry," Says the Fat Man — Digestion and Contentment — The Most Popular Type Socially — Likes Complacent People — Chooses Food-Loving Friends — When He Doesn't Like You — Holds Few Grudges — Avoids the "Ologists" — No Theorist — Where the T-Bones Go — Describes His Food — Eats His Way to the Grave — Diseases He Is Most Susceptible To — Fat Men and Influenza — The Fat Man's Ford Engine — Making a Truck out of Your Ford — Don't "Kill Your Engine" — How Each Finds Happiness — The World Needs Him — Enjoyment the Keynote of This Type — The Fat Man Loves Comfort — The Fat Millionaire — When the Fat Man is in Average Circumstances — The Fat Man a Good Provider — Not a Reformer — When the Fat Man is Poor — Fat People Love Leisure — Not a Strenuous Worker — Everybody Likes Him — The World Managed by Fat People — Fat Men to the Top — The Popular Politician — Makes Others Work — The Fat Salesman — The Drummers' Funny Stories — Jokes at Fat Men's Expense — The Fat Man's Habits — Won't Speed Up — Loves Comedy — Inclined to Indolence — Likes Warm Rooms — Enjoys Doing Favors — Likes Melody — Goes to the Cabaret — Likes a Girly-Show — The One Made Sport Of — A Movie Fan — Easy Entertainment — The Babies of the Race — Loves the Circus — Fat People at the Beach — Not Strenuous — The Art of Getting Out Of It — The Peaceable Type — Avoids Expensive Quarrels — The Real Thing — Always Ready for Food — Avoids Sports — The Personal Element — Reading — Avoids Book Stores — Naturally Realistic — Physical Assets — Physical Liabilities — Social Assets — Social Liabilities — Emotional Assets — Emotional Liabilities — Business Assets — Business Liabilities — Domestic Strength — Domestic Weakness — Should Aim At — Should Avoid — Strongest Points — Weakest Points — How to Deal with this Type Socially — How to Deal with this Type in Business
7. 7.CHAPTER II — The Thoracic Type — "The Thriller" — Physical Resilience — The Florid-Faced, High-Chested Individual — Betray Their Feelings — The Man of Great Chest Expansion — Advantages of a High Chest — Long-Waisted People — Passing of the "Wasp Waist" — Belts vs. Suspenders — To Test Yourself — The Pure Thoracic Head — The Kite-Shaped Face — His Well-Developed Nose — Signs of Good Lungs — The Typical Thoracic Hand — The Beautiful Foot — The Man of Energetic Movements — The Thoracic Walk — The Graceful Sitter — Keen Eye and Ear Senses — Susceptible to Heat — The High-Strung — The Most Temperamental — A Continuous Performance — The Quick Temper — The Human Firefly — The Red-Haired — The "Flash in the Pan" — Desire for Approbation — Acts Indicate Desires — Shines in Public Life — Many on the Stage — "Put Yourself in His Place" — Tendency, Not Toil, Makes Fame — Nature the Real Artist — Success for All — Why We Work — Ambition and Type — The Best Dressed — Clothes Can Unmake the Man — The Glass of Fashion — Distinction in Dress — Dress the Universal Language — The Newest in Hairdressing — Always on "Dress Parade" — Affectability His Keynote — Gets the Most Out of Everything — The Human Violin — A Reputation for Flightiness — The Quick Thinker — His Changeability — His "Batting Average" — Should Get Onto the Highway — Should Have an Aim — Eliminating Non-Essentials — No Vain Regrets — Always Slightly Thrilled — Lights and Shadows — The Uncorked Bottle — Everybody is Interesting — Not Secretive — His "Human Interest" — Naturally Confidential — Charming Conversationalist — Beautiful Voice — The Lure of Spontaneity — Sometimes a "Bubbler" — The Incessant Talker — A Sense of Humor — The Human Fireworks — Never Dull Company — Lives in the Heights and Depths — Called "Intuitive" — Source of "Hunches" — Easily Excited — On the Spur of the Moment — The Adventurers — Tires of Sameness — Likes Responsive People — People He Dislikes — His Pet Aversions — The Forgiving Man — Really Forgets Disagreements — Diseases He is Most Susceptible To — Likes Fancy Foods — "The Trimmings" at Dinner — Sensitive to His Surroundings — Wants "Something Different" — When He is Rich — Fashion and "Flare" — Likes Dash — Has Color Sense — When He is in Moderate Circumstances — When He is Poor — The World Entertained by Them — His Fastidious Habits — Likes All Music — Entertainment He Prefers — Enjoys Vaudeville — Reading — Physical Assets — Physical Liabilities — Favorite Sports — Social Assets — Social Liabilities — Emotional Assets — Emotional Liabilities — Business Assets — Business Liabilities — Domestic Strength — Domestic Weakness — Should Aim At — Should Avoid — Strong Points — Weakest Points — How to Deal with This Type Socially — How to Deal with this Type in Business
8. 8.CHAPTER III — The Muscular Type — "The Worker" — The "Lean Meat" Type — Helpless Without Them — How to Know Him — Physical Solidity — Not So Malleable — Built on the Square — No Type Superior Morally — Type and Temptation — Praise and Punishment — Type vs. Training — Child Training — Short and Stocky — The Square-Shouldered Man — Has Proportionately Long Arms — The Pure Muscular Head — His Thick Neck — His Square Face — His Square Jaw — The Typical Muscular Hand — The Square Fingers of This Type — The Manual Worker — The Hand of the Creative Artist — The "Hand Arts" — Head and Hand Partners — His Powerful Movements — His Forceful Walk — You Hear Him Coming — The Loud Voice — His Stentorian Tones — Famous Male Singers — The Solid Sitter — Activity His Keynote — Movement and Development — The Immigrant Muscular — Inertness Irks Him — Must Be Doing Something — The Born Worker — Require Less Watching — Seldom Unemployed — Likes To Do Things — The Muscular's Pugnacity — Loves the Strenuous Life — The Acrobatic Type — Acrobats Always Muscular — Why They Don't Do It — Durability in Clothes — Likes Heavy Materials — The Plain Dresser — A Simple Soul — Humanness His Hobby — An Everyday Individual — When in Trouble — The Most Practical Type — He Likes What Works — The Natural Efficiency Expert — The Property Owner — Wants the Necessities — His Heart and Soul in Things — An Enthusiast — The Plain Talker — Straightforward — Likes the Common People — Snubs the Snobs — Defends the "Under Dog" — Often on the Warpath — The Most Generous Friend — Not a Quick Forgiver — The Naturally Independent — Likes Plain Foods — When He is in Moderate Circumstances — When He is Rich — The World's Work Done by Musculars — Simple Habits — Entertainment He Enjoys — Music He Likes — Reading — His Favorite Sports — Physical Assets — Physical Liabilities — Social Assets — Social Liabilities — Emotional Assets — Emotional Liabilities — Business Assets — Business Liabilities — Domestic Strength — Domestic Weakness — Should Aim At — Should Avoid — Strongest Points — Weakest Points — How to Deal with this Type Socially — How to Deal with this Type in Business
9. 9.CHAPTER IV — The Osseous Type — "The Stayer" — How to Know Him — The "Raw-Boned" Man — Physical Rigidity — His Size Looks Formidable — His Ruggedness — The Steady Man — Immovability His Keynote — The "Six-Footer" — Large Bones for His Body — The "Small Osseous" — The Pioneer Type — Not a "Softie" — Consistency in Types — His High Cheek Bones — Built on the Oblong — The Oblong Hand — Knotty Fingers — No Guesswork in Nature — The Man of Slow Movements — The Straight-Laced — The Naturally Conventional — Systematic and Methodical — The Stiff Sitter — The Osseous Walk — The Naturally Poised — Not Given to "Nerves" — Resists Change — The Constant — The Implacable — Not Adaptable — The One-Track Man — The Born Specialist — Dislikes Many Irons in the Fire — The Most Dependable Type — Always on Time — An Exacting Man — Likes Responsibility — Finishes What He Starts — The Martyr of the Ages — Takes the Opposite Side — An "Againster" — The Human Balance Wheel — Wears Same Style Ten Years — Disdains the Fashions — When He is Rich — Doesn't Spend Money Lavishly — Not a Social Star — Likes the Same Food — Means What He Says — A Man of Few Words — The Hoarder — Careful of Money — When He is Poor — Fear of the Future — Pays His Bills — The Repressed Man — Loyal to His Few Friends — The "Salt of the Earth" — Plans Ahead — The Longest Lived — People He Dislikes — Likes the Submissive — Diseases He is Most Susceptible To — Music He Likes — Reading He Prefers — Physical Assets — Physical Liabilities — His Favorite Sports — Favorite Entertainments — Social Assets — Social Liabilities — Emotional Assets — Emotional Liabilities — Business Assets — Business Liabilities — Domestic Strength — Domestic Weaknesses — Should Aim At — Should Avoid — His Strong Points — His Weakest Points — How to Deal with this Type Socially — How to Deal with this Type in Business
10. 10.CHAPTER V — The Cerebral Type — "The Thinker" — Your Freight System — Your Telegraph System — Your Working Agents — Source of Your Raw Materials — Stationary Equipment — "Every Cell Thinks" — The Large Head on the Small Body — His Small Assimilative System — Stomach vs. Brain — Why Light Lunches — Clear Thinking and a Clear Stomach — Heavy Dinners and Heavy Speeches — Uses His Head — Forgets to Eat — Physical Sensitivity — His Triangular Head and Face — Delicate Hands — Smooth Fingers — Meditation His Keynote — Air Castles — Thought for Thought's Sake — The Dreamer — Doesn't Fit — A "Visionary" — Ahead of His Time — What We Owe to the Dreamers — The Mutterings of Morse — "Langley's Folly" — The Trivial Telephone — The Wizardry of Wireless — Frank Bacon's Play — An Ideal Combination — The World's Two Classes — To be a Success — Pitfalls for Dreamers — Pitfalls for the Doer — The Hungry Philosopher — His Frail Body — Deficient in "Horse Power" — The Man of Futile Movements — His Jerky Walk — Is Lost in Chairs — Dislikes Social Life — Enjoys the Intellectuals — Ignores the Ignorant — Avoids the Limelight — Cares Little for Money — Very Often Poor — Almost Never Rich — About Clothes — Often Absent-Minded — Writes Better than He Talks — An Inveterate Reader — Where to Look for Pure Types — Interested in Everything — The Book Worm — Old for His Years — The "Teacher's Pet" — Little Sense of Time — Inclined to be Unorthodox — The Political Reformer — The Social Nonconformist — The World's Pathfinder — Indifference to Surroundings — Often Die Young — Physical Assets — Diseases He is Most Susceptible To — Music He Likes — Entertainment He Prefers — A Steady Patron at the Movies — Don't Laugh at Same Things — Cares for No Sports — Likes Mental Games — The Impersonal — Lacks Pugnacity — The Cleverest Crook — Big Brains in Little Jobs — Social Assets — Social Liabilities — Emotional Assets — Emotional Liabilities — Business Assets — Business Liabilities — Domestic Strength — Domestic Weakness — Should Aim At — Should Avoid — His Strong Points — His Weakest Points — How to Deal with this Type Socially — How to Deal with this Type in Business — To Understand Combinations — Law of Combination
11. 11.CHAPTER VI — Types That Should and Should Not Marry Each Other — Married to the Wrong One — Difficulties of Double Harness — Mere Marriedness is not Mating — Secrets Told by Statistics — Infatuation No Guide — The Real "Reversion to Type" — We Can Know — What Every Individual Owes to Himself — Neglected Subjects — Divorce Courts — Times Will Change — The Great Quest — Dolly's Dimple — Sammy's Smile — Little Things vs. Big Things — What the Records Show — Why He Can't Change — Diversion and Divorce — Uncongenial Work Affects Marriage — The Eternal Triangle — Law of Marital Happiness
12. 12.Part One — THE ALIMENTIVE IN LOVE — The Most Affectionate Type — Why They are Loved — Millionaires Marry Them — The Prettiest Type — The "Womanly" Type — Marry Earliest and Oftenest — Desirable Traits of Alimentive Wives — Her Weaknesses — The Alimentive Wife and Money — In Disagreements — Lives Anywhere — Family Friends — Fat Man Also Marries Young — The "Ladies' Man" — No Fat Bachelors — The Best "Provider" — Desirable Traits of Fat Husbands — Weaknesses of Alimentive Husbands — Mates for Alimentives
13. 13.Part Two — LOVE AND THE THORACIC — The Most Beautiful Woman — The Handsomest Man — The Thoracic Charmer — The Lure of the Thoracic — Love at First Sight — The Most Flirtatious — Overheard in Transit — The Joy of Life — Always Blushing — Most Easily Hurt — The Chivalrous Thoracic Man — Breaches of Promise — She Gets Much Attention — The Stunning Girl — The "Merry Widows" — Refuses to Grow Old — Love the "Bright Lights" — Why She Went Insane — The "Gay Devil" Husband — Makes Him Jealous — Dislikes the Monotonous — Not Easy to Live With — Desirable Traits of Thoracics — Live Beyond Means — Should Marry Own Type
14. 14.Part Three — MARRIAGE AND MUSCULARS — Marries Between Twenty-five and Thirty-five — Make "Sensible" Marriages — A Mate for Wearing Qualities — The Most Positive Lover — The Fatal Handicap — Desirable Traits — Mates for Musculars
15. 15.Part Four — THE OSSEOUS IN LOVE — The Riddle Solved — One Lover Through Life — Live Apart from Others — Marries Less Often — Most Difficult to Live With — Likes to Dominate — The Hen-Pecked Husband — Mates for the Osseous
16. 16.Part Five — LOVE AND THE CEREBRAL — Head and Heart in the Clouds — Timidity His Curse — Women Like Him — Can Not Buffet the World — Always Leap Year for Him. — The Much-Loved Cerebral Woman — The Cerebral's Weaknesses — The Saddest Sight — When Love Flies Out the Window — Mates for the Cerebral
17. 17.CHAPTER VII — Vocations For Each Type — "Fame and Failure" — A Favorite Fallacy — Fame's Foundation — Edison Sleeps Four Hours — Failures Who Became Famous — Play, Not Work, Brings Fame — Outdistancing Competition — Efficiency Comes from Enjoyment — Knowing What are Not Your Vocations — How to Test Yourself — The Movie Hopeful — Pleasure or Pay? — Of "Your Own Accord" — Thought it Would Do Him Good — Life Pays the Producer — The Worst Place for Her — When Considering a Position — The Big-Salaried Men — Looking for "Chicken Feed" — Causes of Misfits — Poverty's One Advantage — Richard and Dorothy — Three Kinds of Parents — Don'ts for Parents — The Woman Misfit — The Sealed Parcel — Popular Misconceptions — Misdirected Mothering — Nevers for All — Why She Taught German — Enemies and Engineering — The "Society" Delusion — The Entering Wedge — Jack of All Trades — Only Three Kinds of Work
18. 18.Part One — VOCATIONS FOR ALIMENTIVES — Sells Things to People — Chances for Money-Making — A Good Overseer — Capitalizes His "Comfort" Instincts — The Alimentively Inclined — Things to Avoid — Partners to Select — Partners and Employees to Avoid — Bosses to Avoid — Localities to Avoid — Vocations for Pure Alimentives — Vocations for Alimentive-Thoracics — Vocations for Alimentive-Musculars — Vocations for the Alimentive-Osseous — Vocations for Alimentive-Cerebrals
19. 19.Part Two — VOCATIONS FOR THORACICS — The Born Entertainer — Capitalizes His Approbative Instincts — Chances for Money-Making — Chances for Money-Spending — Work to Avoid — Things to Avoid — Should Not Work Alone — Business Partners to Select — Partners and Employees to Avoid — Bosses to Avoid — Localities to Avoid — Vocations for the Pure Thoracics — For Thoracic-Alimentives — For Thoracic-Musculars — For Thoracic-Osseous — For Thoracic-Cerebrals
20. 20.Part Three — VOCATIONS FOR MUSCULARS — The Born Mechanic and Inventor — Chances for Money-Making — The Orator — Capitalizes His Activity Instincts — The Muscularly Inclined — Things to Avoid — Business Partners to Select — Partners and Employees to Avoid — Localities to Avoid — Vocations for Pure Musculars — For Muscular-Alimentives — For Muscular-Thoracics — For Muscular-Osseous — For Muscular-Cerebrals
21. 21.Part Four — VOCATIONS FOR THE OSSEOUS — Capitalizes His Independence Instinct — Chances for Money-Making — Those Who are Inclined to the Osseous — The North Pole — Missionaries — Things to Avoid — Business Partners to Select — Partners and Employees to Avoid — Bosses to Avoid — Localities to Avoid — Vocations for Pure Osseous — For Osseous-Alimentives — For Osseous-Thoracics — For Osseous-Cerebrals
22. 22.Part Five — VOCATIONS FOR CEREBRALS — Capitalizes His Cerebrative Instinct — The Born Writer — Chances for Money-Making — The Cerebrally Inclined — Things to Avoid — Business Partners to Select — Partners and Employees to Avoid — Localities to Avoid — Vocations for Pure Cerebrals — For Cerebral-Alimentives — For Cerebral-Thoracics — For Cerebral-Musculars — For Cerebral-Osseous — Transcriber's Note

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