| Summary: | "Meeting strangers every day and helping them to expose, at the very least, capsules of their personalities has acquainted me with all sorts of charmers: real, false, and snake. It is not always a simple matter to discern which is which, and very often you can be misled by a gleam in the eye which may, hypothetically speaking, turn out to be glass. Actually, I was quite wary of doing a book on the subject of charm. There is something revolting in my attempting to write about it, but no one asked me to write on Zen Buddhism, and I do have a compulsion to try anything once. I think the only charm worth a plugged subway token is genuine charm--the charm that emanates from a person because he is fully himself. Counterfeit charm is worse than none at all. That's why this subject will be covered in two steps: first, getting at those things which stop you from being yourself; second, presenting some ideas that might be helpful in polishing the charm you have. It's important, I think, to look at it in this way: It never pays to put good wallpaper on crumbly plaster"--Chapter. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).
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