title and author: How to stop worrying and start living by Dale Carnegie
Content Synopsis:
In 1909, Dale Carnegie, by his own description, was one of the most unhappy boys in New York. He sold motor trucks for a living and he was doing poorly. He hated his job, his shabby furnished room and his lousy ties. He despised the cockroaches that shared his room. Finally, he couldn’t take it anymore and decided to change his life, and he did. He stopped worrying and started making progress. Around 1938 he decided to write this book and in 1944 it was published.
Carnegie describes methods he personally found helpful in stopping the worry that grips so many of us, as well as approaches he learned from many others. He interviewed hundreds of successful people to learn his methods.
In this book, Carnegie discusses how to analyze your worries and how to solve problems without worry. She talks about the negative effects of worry on her health and success. She teaches how to break the worry habit, seven ways to cultivate an attitude of mind that can bring you peace and happiness, and a “perfect way” to beat worry.
He tells us how and why not to worry about how, six ways to prevent fatigue and worry from keeping energy levels down, and how a collection of successful men and women told you they conquered worry, including Dorothy Dix, Jim Birdsall, Jack Dempsey, John D. Rockefeller and many others.
Readability/Writing Quality:
This book is very readable and well organized. It is written so that an eighth grader can easily understand it, and yet it is not purely simplistic. Like most of Carnegie’s books, this one has hints at the end of each chapter that summarize the material and tell the reader how to apply it.
Notes on the author:
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) is famous as one of the most successful self-improvement teachers of the 20th century. Since the publication of his first book in 1936, How to Win Friends and Influence People, his books and classes on public speaking and self-improvement have helped millions of people for more than 70 years.
Three great ideas that you can use:
1. If you want to avoid worry, live in “day-tight compartments,” living each day at a time and leaving for yesterday and tomorrow the things you can’t control or affect today.
2. When a problem causes you concern, get the facts, carefully assess the facts and the possible consequences of the action, consider all possible solutions, resolve them by reflecting on the best solution, pursue it, and worry no more.
3. Count your blessings, not your problems. Your mind fixes what you focus on, you can choose what to worry about, do it.
Disclosure Information:
©1944 by Dale Carnegie and 1984 by Donna Dale Carnegie and Dorothy Carnegie.
Published by Pocket Books, Simon and Schuster, Inc.
Rating of this book:
Overall rating: Excellent
Writing style: very good
Applicability: Excellent
Technical Difficulty: Easy
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