How To Stop Worrying And Start Living

Book Code: 1111015210140

Dale Carnegie

ABOUT THE BOOK

Carnegie says in the preface to How to Stop Worrying and Start Living that he wrote it because he "was one of the unhappiest lads in New York". He said that he made himself sick with worry because he hated his position in life, which he attributes to wanting to figure out how to stop worrying. The book's goal is to lead the reader to a more enjoyable
and fulfilling life, helping them to become more aware of, not only themselves, but others around them. Carnegie tries to address the everyday nuances of living, in order to get the reader to focus on the more important aspects of life. It is now a world-famous, self-help book amongst many people.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dale Breckenridge Carnegie was a well-known American writer and lecturer,as well as the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking and interpersonal skills. He was the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People, first published in 1936, a massive bestseller that remains popular even today. He also wrote a biography of Abraham Lincoln, titled Lincoln the Unknown, as well as several other books.
Dale Carnegie was born as Dale Carnagey on November 24, 1888, in Maryville, Missouri. His parents, James William and Amanda Elizabeth Carnagey, were impoverished farmers.Dale Carnegie worked as a traveling salesman before teaching public speaking at YMCA. He taught his students how to interview well, make persuasive presentations and forge positive relationships.Within two years, the courses had achieved such popularity that Carnegie moved them out of the YMCA and founded his own Dale Carnegie Institute to accommodate the growing number of students.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgment .................................................................................................. 9

Preface ................................................................................................................ 15

PART ONE — FUNDAMENTAL FACTS YOU
SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WORRY

1. Live in “Day-tight Compartments” ..................................................................... 23

2. A Magic Formula for Solving Worry Situations .................................................. 35

3. What Worry May Do to You............................................................................. 43

PART TWO — BASIC TECHNIQUES
IN ANALYSING WORRY

4. How to Analyse and Solve Worry Problems ..................................................... 59

5. How to Eliminate Fifty Per Cent of Your Business Worries ................................ 67

PART THREE — HOW TO BREAK THE WORRY
HABIT BEFORE IT BREAKS YOU

6. How to Crowd Worry out of your Mind............................................................ 75

7. Don’t Let the Beetles Get You Down ............................................................... 85

8. A Law That Will Outlaw Many of Your Worries .............................................. 92

9. Co-operate with the Inevitable ......................................................................... 99

10. Put a “Stop-Loss” Order on Your Worries .................................................. 110

11. Don’t Try to Saw Sawdust .......................................................................... 118

PART FOUR — SEVEN WAYS TO CULTIVATE
A MENTAL ATTITUDE THAT WILL BRING
YOU PEACE AND HAPPINESS

12. Eight Words That Can Transform Your Life ................................................ 127

13. The High Cost of Getting Even .................................................................... 142

14. If You Do This, You Will Never Worry about Ingratitude ............................ 151

15. Would You Take a Million Dollars for What You Have? ............................. 158

16. Find Yourself and Be Yourself: Remember There is No One Else on Earth Like You .................165

17. If You Have a Lemon, Make a Lemonade................................................................................ 173

18. How to Cure Melancholy in Fourteen Days ..............................................................................182

PART FIVE — THE GOLDEN RULE FOR
CONQUERING WORRY

19. How My Mother and Father Conquered Worry ......................................................................201

PART SIX — HOW TO KEEP FROM WORRYING
ABOUT CRITICISM

20. Remember That No One Ever Kicks a Dead Dog ................................................................. 225

21. Do This — and Criticism Can’t Hurt You .............................................................................. 229

22. Fool Things I Have Done ...................................................................................................... 234

PART SEVEN — SIX WAYS TO PREVENT FATIGUE AND
WORRY AND KEEP YOUR ENERGY AND SPIRITS HIGH

23. How to Add One Hour a Day to Your Waking Life .............................................................. 243

24. What Makes You Tired — and What You Can do about It .................................................. 248

25. How the Housewife Can Avoid Fatigue — and Keep Looking Young .................................. 253

26. Four Good Working Habits That Will Help Prevent Fatigue and Worry ................................ 259

27. How to Banish the Boredom That Produces Fatigue, Worry, and Resentment ....................... 264

28. How to Keep from Worrying about Insomnia ....................................................................... 273

PART EIGHT — HOW TO FIND THE KIND OF WORK IN
WHICH YOU MAY BE HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL

29. The Major Decision of Your Life ......................................................................................... 283

PART NINE
HOW TO LESSEN YOUR FINANCIAL WORRIES

30. “Seventy Per Cent of All Our Worries ...” ............................................................................ 295

PART TEN
HOW I CONQUERED WORRY

32 True Stories .......................................................................................................................... 311

Six Major Troubles Hit Me All At Once —BY C. I. BLACKWOOD ..................................................... 311

I Can Turn Myself into a Shouting Optimist Within an Hour — BY ROGER W. BABSON .......................................... 314

How I Got Rid of an Inferiority Complex — BY ELMER THOMAS ......................................................... 315

I Lived in the Garden of Allah — BY R. V. C. BODLEY ........... 319

Five Methods I Use to Banish Worry — BY PROFESSOR WILLIAM LYON PHELPS ........................... 323

I Stood Yesterday. I Can Stand Today — BY DOROTHY DIX ...... 326

I Did Not Expect to Live to See the Dawn — BY J. C. PENNEY ........................................................... 327

I Go to the Gym to Punch the Bag or Take a Hike Outdoors — BY COLONEL EDDIE EAGAN ........................................... 329

I Was “The Worrying Wreck from Virginia Tech” —BY JIM BIRDSALL ............................................................ 330

I Have Lived by This Sentence — BY DR. JOSEPH R. SIZOO ...... 332

I Hit Bottom and Survived — BY TED ERICKSEN..................... 333

I Used to Be One of the World’s Biggest Jackasses — BY PERCY H. WHITING ................................................. 334

I Have Always Tried to Keep My Line of Supplies Open —BY GENE AUTRY ............................................................ 336

I Heard a Voice in India — BY E. STANLEY JONES ................... 339

When the Sheriff Came in My Front Door — BY HOMER CROY .. 341

The Toughest Opponent I Ever Fought Was Worry — BY JACK DEMPSEY ......................................................... 344

I Prayed to God to Keep Me Out of an Orphan’s Home — BY KATHLEEN HALTER ................................................... 345

I Was Acting Like an Hysterical Woman — BY CAMERON SHIPP ....................................................... 347

I Learned to Stop Worrying by Watching My Wife Wash Dishes — BY REVEREND WILLIAM WOOD ........................... 350

I Found the Answer— Keep Busy! — BY DEL HUGHES ............. 352

Time Solves a Lot of Things — BY LOUIS T. MONTANT, JR. ....... 354

I Was Warned Not to Try to Speak or to Move Even a Finger — BY JOSEPH L. RYAN ....................................................... 356

I Am a Great Dismisser — BY ORDWAY TEAD .......................... 357

If I Had Not Stopped Worrying, I Would Have Been in My Grave Long Ago — BY CONNIE MACK .......................... 358

One at a Time Gentlemen, One at a Time — BY JOHN HOMER MILLER ............................................... 360

I Now Look for the Green Light — BY JOSEPH M. COTTER ....... 361

How John D. Rockefeller Lived on Borrowed Time for Forty-five Years ............................................................... 363

Reading a Book on Sex Prevented My Marriage from Going on the Rocks — BY B. R. W. ................................... 370

I Was Committing Slow Suicide Because I Didn’t Know How to Relax — BY PAUL SAMPSON .................................. 373

A Real Miracle Happened to Me — BY MRS. JOHN BURGER ..... 374

Setbacks — BY FERENC MOLNAR .............................................. 376

I Was So Worried I Didn’t Eat a Bite of Solid Food for Eighteen Days — BY KATHRYNE HOLCOMBE FARMER .......... 377