Youngsters\' Guide To Personality Development

In a world marked by competition personality is the key to success--whether it is social or business or personal or political arena. Interview for IAS or an MNC, meeting with the parents of your prospective bride, addressing a public rally, or delivering a speech in an international conference...if you have a confident and pleasing personality, you will surely make your mark! This book seeks to motivate young men and women, particularly students, to make conscious and continuous effort to build character and develop personality. With deep insight, the author has provided valuable guidelines and practical tips on matters of special interest to students. Further, he has given them the benefit of experience, his own as well as those of eminent persons. Considering the significant role of teachers and parents and their responsibility in molding young minds, the book intends to serve the purpose of building firm foundation for a better personality. Some Glimpses: * Manners make the a man. We should be uniformly courteous to all...humility marks an educated man. *It is more fitting for a man to laugh over life, than lament over it. *The art of writing letters is worth culivating, for one`s own sake, and for the sake of others. *Start building a library, of your own (if you do not already have one)...learn by heart significant speeches or passages...be a student all through your life. *`I have developed a such a detached attitude to food where taste is concerned that life is so much easier, and the hazard of becoming a victim to contaminated food are almost nil.

1. Before Choosing a Career

2. Learning is a Lifelung Process

3. Sources of Knowledge

4. Personal Development is not an Automatic Proces

5. Positive Interaction with People

6. Act, orithis One Advice and See What Happens!

7. A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place

8. Role Models and Hero Worship

9. Self-Assessmen

10. Likes and Dislikes

11. The Call of Duty

12. On being a Prudent Person

13. Friends

14. Our Most Valuable Possession - Physical Fitness

15. Accomplishments

16. How to Read

17. What to Read

18. Tips on Preparing for Examinations

19. Command Over Language & Neat Handwriting Yield Rich Dividends

20. Help in Career

21. Learning Languages

22. The Art of Writing Personal Letters

23. The Idiot Box and You

24. Organize Yourself

25. Be Different, Be Innovative

26. The Role of Religion in Our Lives

27. The Significance of Positive Thinking

28. How to Improve the Quality of Your Thinking

29. Develop A Sense of Humour

30. Manners Maketh a Man

31. Destiny and Free Will

32. Simple is Beautiful

33. It was not A Cakeuralk for Them

34. Problems of Adolescence

35. Life Threatening Problems of Adolescents

36. Still Very Much A Man's World

37. Whither College & University Education?

38. Evergreen Topic for Debates

39. Some General Hints

40. Inspiration

41. Conclusion