The Art of /(,/. Ml 



Methods. It it a long itcp, in 

 clopmcnt of the a vork, from the 



ability to plan the rm that alertness of 



observation and imaginat; ,h will enable 



to sec the possibility of improvements in your 

 own methods of doing anything. 



.ntcrs of a stage scene, when they are 



heir individual pieces of work, appear to be 

 daubing on the canvas a thick brush of one color 

 and a light brush of another color without pro- 

 ducing any semblance of a picture or scene. Every 

 once in a while the designer of the scene, or the 

 master painter, wil' back far enough from 



the canvas to bring into perspective the separate 



k of the painters; and, in so doing, he catches 

 the strength or the weakness of each piece of work 

 so that it can be harmoniously ami accurately co- 

 ordinated. 



ability to step back from our work and 

 is though we were not engaged upon it, 

 is a ccessary prelude to the improvement 



of the mcth There are a good many 



men in business whose first reaction to suggestion 

 and crit one of resentment. They may not 



get angry about it, but they show in their first 

 little reaction that they cannot separate their \\ 

 from themselves and look at it as though it had 

 been done by somebody else It becomes a per- 

 sonal offense when their work is criticized. This 



-udc makes it \ rficult for them to see 



the improvements which might be made in conncc- 



h their methods of wor s one of the 



-ons for the supervision which must be gi vcn > 



