How To Stop Worrying And Start Living
By
Dale Carnegie
Contents:
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Sixteen Ways in Which This Book Will Help You
Preface - How This Book Was Written-and Why
Part One - Fundamental Facts You Should Know About Worry
l 1 - Live in "Day-tight Compartments"
l 2 - A Magic Formula for Solving Worry Situations
l 3 - What Worry May Do to You
Part Two - Basic Techniques In Analysing Worry
l 4 - How to Analyse and Solve Worry Problems
l 5 - How to Eliminate Fifty Per Cent of Your Business Worries
m Nine Suggestions on How to Get the Most Out of This Book
Part Three - How To Break The Worry Habit Before It Breaks You
l 6 - How to Crowd Worry out of Your Mind
l 7 - Don't Let the Beetles Get You Down
l 8 - A Law That Will Outlaw Many of Your Worries
l 9 - Co-operate with the Inevitable
l 10 - Put a "Stop-Loss" Order on Your Worries
l 11 - Don't Try to Saw Sawdust
Part Four - Seven Ways To Cultivate A Mental Attitude That Will Bring You Peace And
Happiness
l 12 - Eight Words that Can Transform Your Life
l 13 - The High, Cost of Getting Even
l 14 - If You Do This, You Will Never Worry About Ingratitude
l 15 - Would You Take a Million Dollars for What You Have?
l 16 - Find Yourself and Be Yourself: Remember There Is No One Else on Earth Like You

l 17 - If You Have a Lemon, Make a Lemonade
l 18 - How to Cure Melancholy in Fourteen Days
Part Five - The Golden Rule For Conquering Worry
l 19 - How My Mother and Father Conquered Worry
Part Six - How To Keep From Worrying About Criticism
l 20 - Remember That No One Ever Kicks a Dead Dog
l 21 - Do This-and Criticism Can't Hurt You
l 22 - Fool Things I Have Done
Part Seven - Six Ways To Prevent Fatigue And Worry And Keep Your Energy And Spirits High
l 23 - How to Add One Hour a Day to Your Waking Life
l 24 - What Makes You Tired-and What You Can Do About It
l 25 - How the Housewife Can Avoid Fatigue-and Keep Looking Young
l 26 - Four Good Working Habits That Will Help Prevent Fatigue and Worry
l 27 - How to Banish the Boredom That Produces Fatigue, Worry, and Resentment
l 28 - How to Keep from Worrying About Insomnia
Part Eight - How To Find The Kind Of Work In Which You May Be Happy And Successful
l 29 - The Major Decision of Your Life
Part Nine - How To Lessen Your Financial Worries
l 30 - "Seventy Per Cent of All Our Worries ..."
Part Ten - "How I Conquered Worry" (32 True Stories)
• "Six Major Troubles Hit Me All At Once" By C.I. Blackwood
• "I Can Turn Myself into a Shouting Optimist Within an Hour" By Roger W. Babson
• "How I Got Rid of an Inferiority Complex" By Elmer Thomas
• "I Lived in the Garden of Allah" BY R.V.C. Bodley
• "Five Methods I Use to Banish Worry" By Professor William Lyon Phelps
• "I Stood Yesterday. I Can Stand Today" By Dorothy Dix
• "I Did Not Expect to Live to See the Dawn" BY J.C. Penney
• "I Go to the Gym to Punch the Bag or Take a Hike Outdoors" By Colonel Eddie Eagan
• "I Was 'The Worrying Wreck from Virginia Tech'" By Jim Birdsall
• "I Have Lived by This Sentence" By Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo
• "I Hit Bottom and Survived" By Ted Ericksen
• "I Used to Be One of the World's Biggest Jackasses" By Percy H. Whiting

• "I Have Always Tried to Keep My Line of Supplies Open" By Gene Autry
• "I Heard a Voice in India" BY E. Stanley Jones
• "When the Sheriff Came in My Front Door" By Homer Croy
• "The Toughest Opponent I Ever Fought Was Worry" By Jack Dempsey
• "I Prayed to God to Keep Me Out of an Orphan's Home" By Kathleen Halter
• "I Was Acting Like an Hysterical Woman" By Cameron Shipp
• "I Learned to Stop Worrying by Watching My Wife Wash Dishes" By Rev. William Wood
• "I Found the Answer-Keep Busy!" By Del Hughes
• "Time Solves a Lot of Things" By Louis T. Montant, Jr.
• "I Was Warned Not to Try to Speak or to Move Even a Finger" By Joseph L. Ryan
• "I Am a Great Dismisser" By Ordway Tead
• "If I Had Not Stopped Worrying, I Would Have Been in My Grave Long Ago" By Connie Mack
• "One at a Time, Gentlemen, One at a Time" By John Homer Miller
• "I Now Look for the Green Light" By Joseph M. Cotter
• How John D. Rockefeller Lived on Borrowed Time for Forty-five Years
• "Reading a Book on Sex Prevented My Marriage from Going on the Rocks" BY B.R.W.
• "I Was Committing Slow Suicide Because I Didn't Know How to Relax" By Paul Sampson
• "A Real Miracle Happened to Me" By Mrs. John Burger
• "Setbacks" BY Ferenc Molnar