How to Go Through Life With Perfect Poise

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Listen to episode 910 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Go Through Life With Perfect Poise. Edited and Adapted from Poise: How to Attain It by D. Starke.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Poise is a quality which enables us to judge of our own value, and which (in revealing to us the knowledge of the things of which we are really capable) gives us at the same time the desire to accomplish them.

It is not a singular quality. On the contrary, it is a composite of many qualities, all of which take part in the molding of that totality which bears the name of poise.

The principal qualities of which poise is composed are as follows:

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1:35.7	Today's reading was edited and adapted from Poise, How to Attain It by D. Stark, published in 1916.
1:53.2	Lack of poise has always been an obstacle to those who wish to succeed.
2:00.6	In every age, the awkwardness born of timidity has hindered those who suffered from it.
2:07.6	But this defect has never been so great a drawback as in the life of today.
2:13.6	The celebrated phrase of the ancient Roman writer who said,
2:19.3	Fortune smiles on the brave, could very well serve as our motto nowadays, with this slight
2:26.3	alteration. Fortune smiles on those who are possessed of poise. At this point, let me attempt an exact definition of poise.
2:39.1	Poise is a quality which enables us to judge of our own value, and which in revealing
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