Excerpt from Plots and Personalities: A New Method of Testing and Training the Creative Imagination Next I tried them out on my friends. But the re action I got was curious. Some took to the idea at sight, and having much more Vivid imaginations than I, evolved most exciting situations and fascinating charac ters. Others found the Personals silly or worse and obviously thought the same Of me for my interest in them. Then too the same name and message would be interpreted in the most varied ways by different people and I discovered that I could find out a great deal about the disposition and habit Of mind of a person, even of a stranger, by what he or she made out of one of these anonymous fragments of feeling. It was great fun to pass a Personal around a company and ask them all to write down or to tell at once what they saw in it. Some. Times a latent talent for story-telling would be revealed, much to the delight of the person and the rest Of us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.