|
|
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (Paperback)
by Dale Carnegie
| Category:
Personal improvement, Personal effectiveness, Success, Self help |
| Market price: ¥ 108.00
MSL price:
¥ 98.00
[ Shop incentives ]
|
| Stock:
In Stock |
MSL rating:
 Good for Gifts |
| MSL Pointer Review:
A great book that proves that common sense is not common. |
| If you want us to help you with the right titles you're looking for, or to make reading recommendations based on your needs, please contact our consultants. |
Detail |
Author |
Description |
Excerpt |
Reviews |
|
|
|
Author: Dale Carnegie
Publisher: Pocket; Revised edition
Pub. in: September, 1990
ISBN: 0671733354
Pages: 352
Measurements: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00593
Other information:
|
|
Rate this product:
|
|
- Awards & Credential -
A classic on personal effectiveness and success, with more than 6 million copies sold. Ranked #1,387 in books on Amazon.com as of December 1, 2006. |
|
- MSL Picks -
Dale Carnegie was realistic enough to recognize that in a stress-filled, highly competitive society people would often be disposed toward reaching a point of exclaiming desperately, "Enough already!" This master success mindset creator empathizes with people feeling acute frustration and lacking confidence, offering instructive examples of how the world's great achievers and beacons of inspirational thought confronted frustration and despair.
One of my favorite examples from this powerful book is that of the New York mogul who was told by doctors that his condition was irretrievably fatal and that the only thing he could do was try and enjoy the little time which remained to him. He was informed that he could extend the time remaining to a limited degree by being careful of what he ate and seeing that he did not tax himself.
With those thoughts in mind, the mogul boarded a boat for presumably his final journey abroad. After the ship got out to sea and the New Yorker had nothing but time to think, surrounded by blue water on all sides, he decided to throw caution to the winds and enjoy what time remained to him. He began to eat what he wanted, disdaining medical advice, as well as jettisoning cautionary warnings about overtaxing himself. The next thing he knew he had infused himself with such joy of living that he began gaining weight, strength, and stamina, not to mention enjoying himself thoroughly. By the time he reached Europe he was a new man and the presumably fatal illness was no more than a bad dream in his memory bank.
Carnegie recalls a delightful Thanksgiving dinner he had with Jack Dempsey in a New York restaurant. Dempsey explained how, initially, after having lost his heavyweight championship to Gene Tunney, he decided to concentrate, instead of feeling depressed, on accomplishing good and enjoying himself at the same time. Dempsey told Carnegie that in looking back he was actually a happier man in the years following what could have been a bitter disappointment, after losing his title, than in his glory days when he reigned as world heavyweight championship. His determined mental attitude paved the way.
Carnegie also relates how he conquered adversity to become famous. A shy youngster growing up in rural Missouri, he was overcome by self-doubt after moving to New York City. He decided to conquer his shyness by becoming an adept public speaker. Since the challenge was so difficult he concentrated intensely and spent much time and effort learning about the proper elements of speaking. He also concentrated on the realm of overall self-improvement, as well as focusing on the subject of acquisition of confidence. He became so adept that he became the world's foremost authority on the subject of achieving success through developing confidence. Carnegie's common sense approach is as timely now as when he developed it. (From quoting William Hare, USA)
Target readers:
General readers, especially parents for buying the classic for their kids
|
|
Customers who bought this product also bought:
|
|
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) almost single-handedly created the self-help genre with his classic, How to Win Friends and Influence People.
|
|
From the Publisher:
This book can change your life!
Through Dale Carnegie's six-million-copy bestseller recently revised, millions of people have been helped to overcome the worry hobbit. Dale Carnegie offers a set of practical formulas you can put to work today. In the fast-paced world of the 1990's - formulas that will last a lifetime!
Discover how to:
- Eliminate fifty percent of business worries immediately
- Reduce financial worries
- Avoid fatigue - and keep looking you
- Add one hour a day to your waking life
- Find yourself and be yourself - remember there is no one else on earth like you!
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living deals with fundamental emotions and ideas. It is fascinating to read and easy to apply. Let it change and improve you. There's no need to live with worry and anxiety that keep you from enjoying a full, active and happy life!
|
| View all 13 comments |
An American reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-04 00:00>
This book is loaded with common sense, which unfortunately today is such an uncommon thing. If you read this book in its entirety, then read it again and again, you will come to see that you have choices in every moment that you can use to make yourself happy or miserable. It's just that simple. But simple doesn't mean easy-you have to practice over and over again because long held ways of thinking and behaving don't yield to change overnight. Using notable luminaries and average folks, Dale Carnegie doesn't take off on some grand flight of fancy into vague esotericism, but stays wonderfully grounded in offering the tools to a better way of life.
Especially helpful is the advice to live in "day-tight compartments" and to challenge yourself to accept the worst while preparing to make the best out of any difficulty you may encounter. Also, his idea of religion/ spirituality the healthiest I have ever read. He says he has no interest in the creeds that separate people from each other, but has come to appreciate speaking with God simply as something wonderful he can do for himself that yields practical results. Just as fresh water, air, and rest benefit the body, so does a healthy spirituality benefit the mind and soul. At the end of the book are testimonials from all types of people on how they banished worry from their lives and truly began to live again. This book is inspiring, informative, motivational, and comforting. If you read this with an open mind, you will realize that there is really never anything to "worry about" and you will be in command of that most precious of gifts we humans are given: the power of the mind and will to live life in a self-determined way. This is THE classic and if properly appreciated and understood will change your life forever. Quite simply, the best of its kind. Ever! |
Stephen Pletko (MSL quote), Canada
<2007-01-04 00:00>
In this book, by Dale Carnegie, you will learn the following:
(1) Fundamental facts about worry
(2) Basic Techniques in analyzing worry
(3) How to break the worry habit before it breaks you
(4) Seven ways to cultivate a healthy mental attitude
(5) The perfect way to conquer worry
(6) How to keep from worrying about criticism
(7) Six ways to prevent fatigue and worry
(8) Thirty-one true stories about those who conquered worry and how they did it
Carnegie explains what his book is:
"[This] is what this book is: a collection of successful and time-tested recipes to rid ourselves of worry. However, let me warn you: you won't find anything new in it, but you will find much that is not generally applied."
Carnegie also states:
"One thing is certain: this book is practical. You can set [or sink] your teeth in it."
A great feature of this book besides the information it contains is its summaries, thus making it very easy to read. Most chapters contain rules in boldface type that are summary statements of the entire chapter. For example, what is the rule for chapter 17? Just turn to the end of this chapter and you'll see it:
"When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade."
Besides these chapter summary statements, each part or section (except part 5 and the last part) contains a summary entitled "Part...in a Nutshell." For example, this is the summary for section four:
"Part Four in a Nutshell: Seven Ways to cultivate a mental attitude that will bring you health and happiness." Then there is a listing of the seven rules that are the summaries of each of the seven chapters that make up this section or part.
The last section contains thirty-one inspirational, true stories with the theme of "how I conquered worry." At the end of most of these stories is a brief summary point in boldface type that summarizes the entire story. For example, there is a story entitled "I was warned not to speak or to move even a finger" by J.L. Ryan. The summary point for this story is as follows:
"Mr. Ryan is alive today because he made use of the principle...Face the worst that can happen."
Finally, the only problem I had with this book is that it has no notes or footnotes and no references. Carnegie tells us early on that he read "what the philosophers of all ages had said about worry. [He] also read hundreds of biographies, all the way from Confucius to Churchill. [He] also interviewed scores of prominent people in many walks of life." This is impressive but none of this is documented formally in this book!
However, he does give credit to some of his sources in his narrative but these are informal, incomplete references. Still I spotted many things that were not referenced even informally.
In conclusion, this is a practical, concrete, easy-to-read, inspiring handbook on conquering a major problem of humankind. Carefully read this book to learn why "Those who do not know how to fight worry die young!" |
Koosed (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-04 00:00>
Not long ago, when I was newly divorced mom with two teenagers, and plenty of reasons to worry, I found this little book. That year, I'd made a New Year's resolution to stop worrying. Living one day at a time sounded like a great idea. But I did not know how. How to stop worrying?
The book had actually been lying on a bookshelf in my home for a very long time. My copy was so old that the pages were yellow, and crumbling I had picked it up once, glanced through it and laid it down, thinking that my problems were just too overwhelming to listen to yet another positive-thinking guru.
This time, as I read and re-read the book, I came to love the people in it, who told their stories in such heart-felt, simple words. Because, you see, the book was written in a laboratory of human experience. For five years, as a teacher of adult education classes at the YMCA, Dale Carnegie taught a class in how to stop worrying. Each week his students, who came from all walks of life, tried his ideas out, and returned to class with honest feedback on what actually worked for them. Carnegie eventually put their stories together, including what they learned as a group. That's how the book took shape.
The stories, all true, are drawn from days when people had good reason to worry. This was the generation which lived through the Great Depression, and then World War II. Everything is covered here - war, loneliness, financial problems (even bankruptcy-one man had gone through bankruptcy three different times, due to the Great Depression), death, worry over children, health problems, fear of the future.
A number of them had come close to ending their lives due to overwhelming personal problems. Everything is described honestly, in this little book. Yet all of them learned to stop worrying. And they tell how they did it.
Some used prayer as a comfort. The book was written during the days when people weren't ashamed to admit that they found comfort in religious belief. But that isn't the main emphasis of the book. It's filled with practical, down-to-earth approaches for living day to day, happily. The answers are those found in the laboratory of real human experience - not theory, but what works.
If you're like me, prone to waking at night, anxious with what Carnegie calls the "wibber-gibbers," it's the ideal bedside companion, and a true comfort throughout life's up and downs.
Recently, during a lawsuit which caused me a significant amount of anxiety, I tore this little paperback into sections, and carried a section into court with me, to read during odd moments as I waited for the outcome of my case. This book, and the love and support of my family, carried me through. |
Rolf Dobelli (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-04 00:00>
Dale Carnegie compiles time tested wisdom in this book of principles on how to avoid worrying about problems you can't affect. Carnegie outlines some basic principles to help you stop worrying. He draws from common sense, from people who have achieved peace and happiness, and from the sayings of philosophers, business leaders and others. Although Carnegie wrote his book in the 1940's and some of his examples may seem dated, his basic principles are timeless - in fact, ahead of his time. He presents them in an easy-to-read, personal way. He draws on his own and other people's experiences to show a number of techniques for letting go of worries and becoming more productive. We at getAbstract recommend this self-development classic to everyone. |
View all 13 comments |
|
|
|
|
