A list of "defects" from Clarence Snyder

A list of defects attributed to Clarence S. of Cleveland; his story, "The Home Brewmeister", appeared in the First Edition. The last surviving member of the First 100, he sponsored a fellow who wrote the book How It Worked - The Story of Clarence Snyder where Clarence explained how it worked in 1939:

STEP FIVE: The inventory is of our defects, not our incidents. Here are the defects:

  1. Resentment, Anger;
  2. Fear, Cowardice;
  3. Self pity;
  4. Self justification;
  5. Self importance, Egotism;
  6. Self condemnation, Guilt;
  7. Lying, Evasiveness, Dishonesty;
  8. Impatience;
  9. Hate;
  10. False pride, Phoniness, Denial;
  11. Jealousy;
  12. Envy;
  13. Laziness;
  14. Procrastination;
  15. Insincerity;
  16. Negative Thinking;
  17. Immoral thinking;
  18. Perfectionism, Intolerance;
  19. Criticizing, Loose Talk, Gossip;
  20. Greed;

Source: Barefoot Bob