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Joan Tells some of her Secrets:
"I owe ray success and wealth to shame!
"When I was a child I was ashamed because other little girls had dolls my own parents could not afford to give me. So I ran errands and minded neighbors' babies until I earned enough money to buy my own doll!
"When I was a bit player and passed stars on the street, I was ashamed that I was not a success.
"That's why I'm a star — 7 ivas ashamed not to be!"
JOAN CRAWFORD said to me, "1 owe my success and wealth to shame! "I mean that 1 am ashamed of my deficiencies," she confessed. "Since early childhood, I've been ashamed of my faults or lack of accomplishments. When other children did things I could not duplicate, I worked and studied until I could do as much. Some hidden internal element of my soul will not permit me to be satisfied with my lot. I constantly discover new things which I do not understand, and I am never happy until they are clear to me. That is why I am a star ; / was ashamed not to be!"
"But I have always regarded ambition as the guiding motive to success, Joan," I said.
"Ambition is a word that is broadly mis-used," she answered. "We have a way of saying, 'He will succeed, for he is ambitious,' but if we really stop to diagnose, we would learn that the term is ambiguous ; it is a word with many meanings — a word that mothers a number of words, as a hen mothers her chicks.
"I, for example, wish to be learned and respected. People say I am ambitious, when I am really ashamed of my shortcomings. Therefore, shame is the basis for my success. The next man may achieve wealth because he fears poverty, and struggles to rise from it. Still another may succeed because he is avaricious. Another may have innate yearnings to travel, and he may realize that money is necessary to the complete satisfaction of his desire. Each of these humans would struggle hard for success, but each would be motivated by an individual motive.
"Shame has guided my efforts as long as I can remember. When I was a child, other little girls had dolls and toys my own parents could not afford to give me. So I worked at odd jobs, such as running errands, minding neighbors' babies and so on — until I accumulated the money to purchase a doll as beautiful as any I have ever seen. Then I was not ashamed.
"A few years later I went to school. Because my parents could not afford the tuition, I had to work to pay a part of my expenses. I (Continued on page 90)
By
James M. Fidler
Here is a Crawford vho can say, "Today I have arrived at some of the goa/s / have set for myself. But now I find new aims, other things to reach for."