The-Conquest-of-Happiness-by-Bertrand-Russell

conform or manage to avoid any sharp issue.
People who are not in harmony with the
conventions of their own set tend therefore to be
prickly and uncomfortable and lacking in
expansive good humour. These same people,
transported into another set where their outlook is
not thought strange, will seem to change their
character entirely. From being serious, shy and
retiring they may become gay and self-confident;
from being angular they may become smooth and
easy; from being self-centred they may become
sociable and extrovert.
Wherever possible, therefore, young people who
find themselves out of harmony with their
surroundings should endeavour in the choice of a
profession to select some career which will give
them a chance of congenial companionship, even if
this should entail a considerable loss of income.
Often they hardly know that this is possible, since
their knowledge of the world is very limited, and
they may easily imagine that the prejudices to
which they have become accustomed at home are