Special Gifts, Devices, and Techniques : Page 129

The I-give-up approach is perhaps the only way to meet and check teasing on points which are unbearably distasteful or painful to us. But that method also cuts the conversation short on that point. If we did that on all points, we would become conversational wallflowers. A really good, sociable person is one who has reduced the number of things upon which he is too touchy to be teased, who has learned to be philosophical about his shortcomings and peculiarities so that he can gracefully accept teasing. The baldhead who invites teasing about it is much more popular than a towhead who doesn't. A person must try to overcome his sensitiveness. He might make a list of things about which he is touchy now, and resolve in the