Mental Efficiency and Other Hints to men and women

No one is a worse guide to success than your typical successful man. He seldom understands the reasons of his own success; and when he is asked by a popular magazine to give his experiences for the benefit of the youth of a whole nation it is impossible for him to be natural and sincere. He knows the kind of thing that is expected from him and if he didnt come to London with half a crown in his pocket he probably did something equally silly and he puts that down and the note of the article or interview is struck and good-bye to genuine truth! There recently appeared in a daily paper an autobiographic-didactic article by one of the worlds richest men which was the most inadequate article of the sort that I have ever come across. Successful men forget so much of their lives! Moreover nothing is easier than to explain an accomplished fact in a nice agreeable conventional way. The entire business of success is a gigantic tacit conspiracy on the part of the minority to deceive the majority.