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rr"t'1Eeue88s :,:',jl8,'tl?9sliio?'.'il"i' 'fseiCefttiiijir','ii.t; Think for yourself "Third, they never laugh at new ideas. Humanity has always jetred at_its_saviors and persecgted its p.rophets, A _ - "Fourth, they eross.exainine their dayiireiuns, They find some of them practical and can be achieved, and forget the ones that are not. (A) Do I really want to know the truth; or do I merely want to page yuttynt.p.reeone'ysved ry?tions are right? - - © Have I ever - without prejudice, get notions and dogmas - even for a moment, surrendered my mind completely to the eerr.tination of. tht reasons fqr my most chgrished opinions? - "It's a great day in a person's life when this surrender to truth is made. They have entered into a new kind of life. They suddenly Ptnd themselves in possession of a strange new power - the power to handle and control facts; the power to discover new facts for themselves. They ruid, for the rust time, that their knowledge has become power to move people and things. Their feet are at last on the highway to the four great objects of life and education: namely,_poise, power, peace and freedom. - "The second thing is" Gat their always listen to the person who knows. "Fifth, they know their strong points and play them. Nothing succeeds like success, but that is chiefly because they have foggy! their strqng poihts aryl haye lesmed how 1oplay thyn, h“Sixth, they krGiv the value of good habits and flow: to form t em. “Seventh, they know when not to think and when to call in thgjxpegt for advio_e or jpftrmation, -- _ _ _ "Eighth, you cant sell them magic. They have no time for huh, charms, signs, number 13, Black Fridays, and other relics of the dark ages. "Ninth, they live the forward-looking, outward-looking life. They leave the old behind them and move forward to the new. (I have a friend who still spends most of his time talking about the Second World War. Others who have never outgrown their wllszesleve) .n . ___ .. . __ The well-known columnist, Albert E. Wiggam, wrote an Is.rtit.leto.r t.he3.eits.a.?.M.aeint,rhjehrasrriitfrieprintedi, the Reader’s Digest, titled, Wen Maxim GEiaaiiia.a Here are some of the high points so that you and I can see how well.“ am- _ - 'Timt, hwy keep their minds open on every question until all the evidence is in. They continually ask themselves the following three questions which are called the ABC of all education: (B) Am I willing to lay aside my convictions, the historical traditions and customs of my social class, in the presence of a new fact, long enough to rmd out if this new fact ought to change mtpttittt of view? - "'NnthftUy cultivate a love for the beautiful and see it all argungl them, in people, in, gnifapta apd in_naturq." -- Well, there you are, the 10 marks of an educated person. How did you make out? Incidentally, just to show how good thughta really: fresh with the passing of time. Albert Wiggam wrote thy grticle in July, 1926) _ _ _ _ _ . . __ Only open-minded people can be truly educated; and it is well to remember that there are two ways in which you can be fooled. One is to belive what is false, and the other is to refuse to believe what in true. As Joel: Billings pointed out in his homely wisdom: "It ain't so much what you don't know that holds us back; it's more what you do know. that ain't so!” Hyou take the time to honestly analyze your beliefs, you may be surprised to.find how may of them "ain't so" but rather the false beliefs of others, imposed on you in childhood. To "know thyelf" in this trverdtangietg world in to think for yourself. Geoff Fellows operates the Human Resource Development Institute, no. Bax 642, Cambridge NIR 5W1, providing effectiveness training for business and industry. Slnce 1974 Whirlpools, Saunas Spas, Hal Tubs Canadian WWvoluntm Catherine Coubon has lived thmugh-r_tte'tthelplngotFtodttttt-. Coulson was visited shortly after her mastectomy by a volun- teer with the Cancer Society's Reach to Recovery program, a service which offers understand. ing and encouragement to women who have had, or are about to Deborah Cram." Chronicle Staff In August of 1989, Catherine Cannon was diagnosed " having breast cancer. Surgery to remove the cancer and six months of chemotherapy proved to be a traumatic experi- ence for her, and if not for the assistance of a volunteer with the Kitchener-Waterloo Canadian Cancer Society, her recovery would have been even more dim, cult. "it helped me enormously. It really did," Coulson says. “The individual who came to visit me inspired me. She made me realize that there was a lot to be done yet, We got to talking about a lot of things - that (cancer) is not the death sentence that people tend to think it is. At that point I was really scared, and it was good to talk to someone who had been through it. It's, such a traumatic experience - you need that kind of support." have, breast surgery due to cancer. All of the volunteers involved in the program draw on their own experiences with breast cancer to provide support and reassurance to other breast cancer etiepta. _ WATERLOO CHRONOCLE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1991 . PAGE A11 ' THE AREA'S LARGEST SHOWROOM . 41 Models on Display q From 8659 NOW ON SALE! House ot Cedar 210 Regina St. N., Waterloo 885-1711 Supplementary services offer finaneial support to cancer pa tienta who need assistance with the costs of recovery, such as pam control drugs, prostheses, and medical equipment rental Trans portation services provides trans portation to cancer patients traw elling from their home to cancer treatment centres Approximate- ly 50 volunteer drivers contribute to the program. Cansurmount is similar to the Reach to Recovery program m that trained volunteers who have been touched by cancer have one. toone visits with cancer patients in the home or hospital, says Roee.hnne Fournier, chairperson of the Cancer Society‘s patient "l think the information ls war) important. and we make an Mun to provide all kinds of mfnrma mm," Coulson says "lnformatmn in itself can be a real tool, a real help in overcoming that kmd of fturAnd it can be Supportive .. Other serhces offered by the local Cancer Society Include, sup plementary services. transporter tion services, and the Cansur mgunt program. __ But this emotional support pro gram is offered to patients of all ages suffering from all forms of cancer, "The volunteers offer support Because ofthe help she received hom the Cancer Society, Coulaon decided to give back to the com. munity by becoming a Cancer nggety volunteer herself. When a new program. Living with Cancer, was initiated by the local Cancer Society latrt Novem ber, Coulson decided to offer her services. Living With Cancer was in tended to be a self-help emotional support group, but the turnout in the program's meetings (held the second and fourth Wednesday of each month at The Seagram Museum) was so great that it was impossible to hold sessxons where participants could hold Intimate discussions. Coulson and other trammi ml unwers help facihtate the ses- signs by encouraging dlscussmn and question periods after hster, ing to the guest speakers The volunteers often draw (m thmr own expenences durmg thscus sions, As a result, Living with Cancer evolved Into an mformatwe pm gram, m wluch guest speakers discuss various topics which wr/ help cancer panents and than famihes live more effective)) with cancer (Continued on 9.99 A15)