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Whatever is done to kill time; to help one forget one's self, because it is the fad, or because society demands it, is weakness. "Conformity is weakness," says Emerson.

Companionship, social intercourse, exchange of affectionate and love expressions are sources of power. Man is a social being and needs to mingle with his kind, but what are known as "social functions" are diffusive and interfere with Success, as determined in "Introduction." What is termed "society" is dissipation; a loss of opportunity and power and leads to ill health and failure. Many who feel compelled to live lives in conformity to social demands have said to me, both men and women, "Society is hell!" Physicians tell me so and the records of sanitariums and homes echo, --- "Hell!" Why? Because it is the opposite of Peace-Rest --- Happiness Health.

Concentration upon pleasure for its own sake, kills. Games are right and necessary in their place. They are means of relaxing; a means of rest from our over strenuous life. But the tendency is to carry the same strenuousness into the game, and instead of enjoying the game, enjoy the winning. And there is no more nerve wearing and diffusive' means than gambling in any form, be it at stock board, roulette table or at any thing where there is striving to win. Let me tell you something: --- when you become so interested in winning as to lose the enjoyment of each step of the game --- stop! I will not play a second game with any one who "crows" over his winnings, or who feels bad over his failures. And I would prefer he would, like myself, forget to name who won the evening before. To play