The happy man is the man who lives objectively, who has free affections and wide interests, who secures his happiness through these interests and affections and through the fact that they in turn make him an object of interest and affection to many others. To be the recipient of affection is a potent cause of happiness, but the man who demands affection is not the man upon whom it is bestowed. The man who receives affection is, speaking broadly, the man who gives it. But it is useless to attempt to give it as a calculation, in the way in which one might lend money at interest, for a calculated affection is not genuine and is not felt to be so by the recipient. What then can a man do who is unhappy because he is encased in self? So long as he continues to think about the causes of his unhappiness, he continues to be self-centered and therefore does not get outside the vicious circle. If he is to get outside it, it must be by genuine interest, not by simulated interests adopted merely as a medicine. Although this difficulty is real, there is nevertheless much that he can do if he has rightly diagnosed his trouble. If for example, his trouble is due to a sense of sin, conscious or unconscious, he can first persuade his conscious mind that he has no reason to feel sinful, and then proceed, to plant this rational conviction in his unconscious mind, concerning himself meanwhile with some more or less neutral activity. If he succeeds in dispelling the sense of sin, it is possible that genuine objective interests will arise spontaneously. If his trouble is self-pity, he can deal with it in the same manner after first persuading himself that there is nothing extraordinarily unfortunate in his circumstances. If fear is his trouble, let him practise exercises designed to give courage. Courage has been recognized from time immemorial as an important virtue, and a great part of the training of boys and young men has been devoted to producing a type of character capable of fearlessness in battle. But moral courage and intellectual courage have been much less studied. They also, however , have their technique. Admit to yourself every day at least one painful truth, you will find it quite useful. Teach yourself to feel that life would still be worth living even if you were not, as of course you are, immeasurably superior to all your friends in virtue and in intelligence. Exercises of this sort prolonged through several years will at last enable you to admit facts without flinching and will, in so doing, free you from the empire of fear over a very large field.
1. If a man is suffering from a sense of sin _______.
2. What happens to a man who demands affection?
3. Which of the following, according to the passage, has not been studied much?
4. Which of the following words is SIMILAR in meaning of the word ‘bestowed’ as used in the passage?
5. Which of the following virtues, according to the passage has been recognised for long as an important virtue?
6. Who according to the passage is the happy man?
7. According to the passage, calculated affection _______.
8. What happens when you think about the cause of your unhappiness?
9. Which of the following words is SIMILAR in meaning to the word ‘flinching’ as used in the passage?
10. Which of the following words is OPPOSITE in meaning of the word ‘dispelling’ as used in the passage? Answer
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1. If a man is suffering from a sense of sin _______.
Answer: He should consciously realize that he has no reason to feel sinful.
2. What happens to a man who demands affection?
Answer: His feelings are reciprocated by others.
3. Which of the following, according to the passage, has not been studied much?
Answer- Moral and intellectual courage.
4. Which of the following words is SIMILAR in meaning of the word ‘bestowed’ as used in the passage?
Answer- Conferred
5. Which of the following virtues, according to the passage has been recognized for long as an important virtue?
Answer- Courage
6. Who according to the passage is the happy man?
Answer- Who has free affection and wide interests.
7. According to the passage, calculated affection _______.
Answer- Appears to be false and fabricated.
8. What happens when you think about the cause of your unhappiness?
Answer- You remain a self- centered person.
9. Which of the following words is SIMILAR in meaning to the word ‘flinching’ as used in the passage?
Answer- Wincing
10. Which of the following words is OPPOSITE in meaning of the word ‘dispelling’ as used in the passage?
Answer- Receiving.
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