Personology: The Dynamics of Success

By Robert L. Whiteside

Here is what Personology will do for you:

• It will help you play up your own strong points and avoid your weak ones.
• You will gain a feeling of definiteness in how to deal with the persons most important in your life.
• It will help you make more money.
• You will  have immediate answers for most of your daily life situations.
• You will have many more friends - and enjoy them more.
• It will help you leanr how to get mor love instead of more criticism from your wife or husband.
• You will stop feeling blocked and will be more effective because you will act more positively.
• You will know more definitely what you're good at in work or hobbies.
• You will understand how to communicate with one child of yours differently than the other.
• You will be less misunderstood by others.
• You can  break unwanted habits easier.
• You can close the generation gap.
• You will have much of your faith in Human nature restored.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc.
• Release date: May 15, 2018
• ISBN: 9780883918371

Robert L. Whiteside

Mr. Whiteside is President of The Interstate College of Personology and haas his teacher certificate from that institution. Born in California, he was a successful newspaperman when he heard a speaker from the Personolgy Foundation, Edward W. Jones. Intrigued by the natual approach to intrinsic abilities outlined by the speaker, he returned to college to obtain his degree and receive special training for research. With the knowledge he gained, he headed a research team that statistically validated 68 strucural/functional relationships in the human being. Mr. Whiteside has since traveled extensively throughout the U.S. in connection with The Interstate College of Personology and is probably the leading figure in his field.

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Success

Chapter 1.

Introduction:

Your Genetic Gifts

Over the narrow genetic bridge, you have inherited talents. And there is no one on earth exactly like you, in your combination of talents—just as there is no one with your same fingerprints. You are unique—nonidentical. Do you realize that there never was anyone on earth before exactly like you and that there never will be? You have a contribution that you can make, in your own way, that no one else ever can duplicate.

Your special gifts are carried originally in your genetic code, in the nucleus of your cells. This DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is your inherent programming. It determines not only whether you are blue-eyed; it determines how much of an ear for music you have, how much of a gift at art, how much of a temper—your inherent talents and basic disposition. And, since these qualities are parts of your functioning mechanism, they are all under your conscious control!

What proportion of this genetic endowment of yours do you have at your beck and call?

Dr. James Shields, English scientist who with the help of the British Broadcasting Company assembled together the largest group of separated identical twins ever gathered together in the interest of research, found that identical twins who had seldom, or never, met before this study, proved to be much more alike in personality, intelligence, temperament, attitudes and mannerisms than fraternal twins brought up in the same household.

That’s a pretty big chunk of you, isn’t it: PERSONALITY, INTELLIGENCE, TEMPERAMENT, ATTITUDES, MANNERISMS. They are all part of your vehicle of expression. They are all under your conscious control. Therefore, just as you can move your hand if you wish, you can direct your own special qualities to your greatest advantage.

In the studies of the Interstate College of Personology, so far sixty-eight structural/functional relationships have been validated as statistically significant at the one per cent level. They range from courage to sympathy, from hand coordination to a knack with food. For your advantage and use, the bulk of these factors will be described in this volume.

From experience gained in working with thousands of people, you will be shown how best to utilize special factors for success in your work and success in your home.

Physical indicators for these traits range from the thin-skinned and baby-haired build of the physically sensitive person to the tight-mouthed build of the individual given to expressing himself briefly; from the rangy build of the first-baseman or tackle in sports to the large-eyed quality of the openly emotional.

You will become acquainted with these traits as this book coaches you to be more effective in the small but important episodes of daily life—those episodes that add up to your belief that you are getting somewhere in life or that you are not.

You will notice that this book is divided into three sections: Success at Work, Success at Home, and Your Self-Unfoldment. But before we enter into those areas, let us complete our look at the genetic procedure by which you received your own unduplicated combination of gifts and personality.

Each new human life created in the laboratory of nature has received a set of twenty-three chromosomes from each parent. (The electronic microscope shows that in each chromosome there are hundreds of genes. Each gene has its own message about how your body is to be formed and how it will develop, function, and maintain itself.)

Since you and your brother each receive chromosomes from the same parents, how can you be different? The answer is, that each parent has forty-six chromosomes, and each parent contributes only half of his available chromosomes to each new child. Think of two decks of cards which are shuffled for each new hand, and in each new hand, only half of the available cards are dealt. So, mathematically, the same two parents hypothetically would have to have more than 17 million different children before hitting the same genetic combination again. Such is the abundance of creation.

Also, human variety is enhanced by the fact that some genes are recessive: this means they may skip a generation (or a number of generations), before they appear in the outward surface makeup of the person. All the time, the recessive gene may be present in the inner cell code (genotype) but not make itself evident in your outer structure (phenotype). On the other hand, dominant genes make themselves outwardly apparent whenever they are present.

Eye color gives us a simple illustration of the workings of dominant and recessive genes. The darker color is dominant. Thus, if you inherited a gene for brown eyes from one parent and a gene for blue eyes from the other progenitor, then your eyes turn out to be brown. But you carry a recessive blue-eye gene in your inner cell code. You could pass this blue-eye gene on to a child, although you do not show outwardly that you possess it. Recessive genes are just as liable to be passed on. Thus, two brown-eyed parents may have a blue-eyed child if each passes on a recessive blue-eyed gene.

Among structural/functional traits for which the genes are dominant are criticalness, administrativeness, and the outdoor build.

In this book we are presenting for practical purposes the findings of years of research by the Interstate College of Personology. This research has been not only on the more routine phases of behavioral genetics but also on its fruitful application to daily life.

For example, functionally, the round conchshaped ear most smoothly funnels in sounds and music. Fingers of nearly the same length are co-ordinated best; in other words, the square hand with flat fingers is most effective. The full-lipped person has an advantage in blowing a wind instrument. The individual built with a short torso and long legs (as if he were on stilts) is more comfortable when he is seated. Conversely, the man with a long torso and short legs likes to be on his feet.

The application of such knowledge brings swift and often effective results.

Both parents of Ronnie Barrett are accomplished musicians. They were puzzled that he was not doing well at his piano lessons. They had him checked on a structure-function basis. They found that although he had a fine ear for music and a good pair of hands, he was built to be on his feet and to play a wind instrument. The recommendation: change to the trumpet. This was when Ronnie was thirteen. He became the champion high school trumpet player in the East Bay area of northern California.

Psychological research with groups of animals, such as different strains of rats, has taken up most of the time of behavioral geneticists. But the work of the Interstate College of Personology has concentrated on the structure-function relationships found in human beings. It goes beyond narrower emphases and instead into the fruitful uses of behavioral genetics in human daily life, stressing individual progress in the use of talents and other characteristics. Hence we use the broader term personology —the science or study of persons as individuals, and their most effective functioning and unfoldment. This study being nonpathological, the original statistical measurements were built on a base population of 1,050 normal northern California and Oregon adults engaged in their usual occupations. Rating procedures were used with significant contingency coefficients. In layman’s language, the results obtained could not have happened by chance once in a hundred times.

Now, let us progress to the sections that caused you to pick up this volume: how best to use your own unique nature toward your most cherished goals in life.

Part 1.

Success in

Your Work

Chapter 2.

Your Vocation

Your build and your vocation: how are they connected?

Let us look first at the simple engineering of your frame—your chassis.

If you are built with a long torso and short legs, your hips sit low and you have the runaround build. You are light on your feet, and you like to be on your feet. You can walk around all day. (If in addition you are of outdoor build, you might like to harvest lettuce or deliver mail. If you are of indoor build, you might like to be a floorwalker in a department store.)

Conversely, if you are built with a short waist and long legs, as if you were on stilts, you can take long steps but you soon tire of working against gravity and want to get off your feet. You enjoy your work best if you are seated, it takes less out of you, and you are less irritable at the end of the day. If you have a legal cast of mind, you might well be a judge. If you have the square flat hands of the born artisan, you might be a watchmaker.

There are other qualities connected with the obvious engineering of your chassis, such as what Dr. William Sheldon has reported from research into basic cell proportions in the human constitution. If you are the bone-and-muscle man (the mesomorph), square and angular, your tendency is to be on the go, and to build, dig, fight, and change the face of the earth. If you are round and rolypoly, you are the born politician, and host (or hostess); you have a knack at creature comforts—food, shelter, entertainment, homemaking. Basically, you are domestic; you set up housekeeping wherever you go. You are an endomorph, with your large proportion of digestive tissue, and you are never without resources, because if you allowed yourself to be broke, you might miss a meal! Or, on the other hand, if you are an ectomorph, with a large proportion of nervous tissue and thinking equipment, and a V shaped head with a small chin but a very wide and ponderous build at the top of the head (like Bertrand Russell), then your reaction to a situation will be to think rather than to physically move around. If you are as analytical as Sir Bertrand you likewise might become a philosopher. Or, if you are business-minded and critical, you might become outstanding as an auditor. In any case, your natural reaction is mental rather than physical.

In addition to general engineering factors of a person’s build, as just enumerated, there are also personality factors as well which affect vocational success. If you are gregarious by nature and also dynamic and forceful, you can sell from door to door. If by nature you enjoy information, you may fit well as a historian or librarian or statistician. If you are constituted so that you gravitate toward things, then your gifts are tapped more by becoming an inventor, interior decorator, metallurgist, or seamstress.

When you are checked over personologically, there are sixty-eight factors gauged and fitted together for your best expression, including both the basic physical chassis traits and the personality factors, in detail. This is fascinating, both for the personologist and the subject. There is always a place where a person fits exactly—something that he can do in his own special way that no one else is built to do in exactly the same manner. For example, a man may be built to be an attorney but he is interested in things, instead of in people or in information as an attorney ordinarily would be. So the man can implement his special gifts in an even more individual way as a patent attorney. There his enthusiasm for objects and tangibles makes his work pleasurable, and he is able to achieve a better understanding of what his clients have invented.

The word vocation comes from the same word root as vocal, and means a calling. You might say it’s in your bones to do it. As the song goes, Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly . . .—and, you know in your heart that you have to enjoy what you do in your lifetime or you have missed your destiny. Other people do what they want to with their lives. Be sure YOU do, too! There is a place somewhere for you, where your special build is just what is needed. It may be something highly unusual, such as the guest on the television show What’s My Line? whose occupation was capping the worndown teeth of elderly cows! It may be something more routine, such as pumping gas. But it suits YOU.

As the old song goes, Be what yo’ is, ‘cause if yo’ is what yo’ ain’t, yo’ ain’t what yo’ is! And if you are true to yourself and is what yo’ is, you are also true to humanity as a whole, for you get your whole kit of talents into play for the benefit of others.

Dr. George Gallup, of poll and statistics fame, has a book describing random sampling of Americans who have lived beyond the age of ninety. He found they enjoyed their lifetime work and even put in extra hours at it.

Thomas Edison was much the same way. Someone was commiserating with Edison about the inventor’s long schedule of fourteen hours a day. It’s a shame you have to work so long, the visitor said. Edison surprised him with the rejoinder: Why, I never WORKED a day in my life! It’s all been fun!

Your job should be, like the person you marry or the car you buy, something you can be ENTHUSIASTIC about. It should tap the traits of your feeling and emotion area, as well as the traits of your thinking area. It should tap your interests in such a way that if someone touches on it