“As you can readily see, it is this inability to get competent counsel from others, coupled with your own lack of observation and lack of deliberation, that leads you into so many situations that turn out to be undesirable.  Here, again, you need to go more slowly, to act more according to your knowledge and less according to impulse, to make sure that you understand what other people say, especially when seeking for advice.  As a result of your rather emotional character, you are liable to go to extremes and do erratic things, to be over-zealous for a short period; also, at times, to be high tempered, although your temper quickly evaporates.  In all of these things you will see the need for cultivation of more self-control, more poise, more calmness, more maturity of thought, speech, and action.

“You are very idealistic.  Your standards are high.  You naturally expect much.  It is your hope always, when making a change, that you will get into something which will more nearly approach perfection than the thing you are leaving.

“But you are also critical.  Indeed, you are inclined to be hypercritical, to find too much fault, to see too many flaws and failures.  For this reason, nothing ever measures up to your ideals—­you are always being disappointed.

“You need to cultivate far more courage.  By this I mean the courage which hangs on, which meets obstacles, which overcomes difficulties, which persists through disagreeable situations.  Your impulsiveness leads you into plenty of things, but you are so hypercritical, and you become so easily discouraged when eventualities do not measure up to your ideals, that you fail to finish that which you start.

“Naturally, of course, if you were to be more deliberate and more careful in forming your judgments, you would find things more nearly ideal after you got into them.  Then, if you would stick to them, you could make a much greater success of them.

“Your intention to be honest, is, no doubt, above reproach.  However, your conduct or the results may at times be equivalent to dishonesty, being so regarded by others.  This, of course, is the result of your immaturity, your impulsiveness, and your tendency not to see things through.

“You are very keenly sensitive.  With your great love of beauty and refinement, anything which is coarse, crude, and ugly in your environment is very depressing to you.  You also find it difficult to associate happily with those who are coarse and crude by nature.  Unquestionably, such people frequently hurt you cruelly when they have no intention of doing so.  It would be well if you would learn to accept other people for what they are worth, rather than being so critical of them and so easily hurt.  Praise and blame are usually meant impersonally and should be so received.  In other words, people praise or blame the deed and not the doer.