How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

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by  Dale Carnegie

Cover Page: 1
Title Page Page: 4
Dedication Page: 5
Preface: How This Book Was Written—and Why Page: 8
Nine Suggestions on How to Get the Most Out of This Book Page: 10
Part One: Fundamental Facts you Should Know About Worry Page: 12
Chapter 1: Live in “Day-tight Compartments” Page: 13
Chapter 2: A Magic Formula for Solving Worry Situations Page: 17
Chapter 3: What Worry May Do to You Page: 20
Part Two: Basic Techniques in Analyzing Worry Page: 25
Chapter 4: How to Analyze and Solve Worry Problems Page: 26
Chapter 5: How to Eliminate Fifty Per Cent of Your Business Worries Page: 29
Part Three: How to Break The Worry Habit Before it Breaks You Page: 31
Chapter 6: How to Crowd Worry Out of Your Mind Page: 32
Chapter 7: Don’t Let the Beetles Get You Down Page: 36
Chapter 8: A Law That Will Outlaw Many of Your Worries Page: 39
Chapter 9: Co-operate with the Inevitable Page: 42
Chapter 10: Put a “Stop-Loss” Order on Your Worries Page: 46
Chapter 11: Don’t Try to Saw Sawdust Page: 49
Part Four: Seven Ways to Cultivate A Mental Attitude that Will Bring You Peace and Happiness Page: 52
Chapter 12: Eight Words That Can Transform Your Life Page: 53
Chapter 13: The High Cost of Getting Even Page: 58
Chapter 14: If You Do This, You Will Never Worry About Ingratitude Page: 61
Chapter 15: Would You Take a Million Dollars for What You Have? Page: 64
Chapter 16: Find Yourself and Be Yourself: Remember There Is No One Else on Earth Like You Page: 67
Chapter 17: If You Have a Lemon, Make a Lemonade Page: 70
Chapter 18: How to Cure Depression in Fourteen Days Page: 73
Part Five: The Perfect Way to Conquer Worry Page: 79
Chapter 19: How My Mother and Father Conquered Worry Page: 80
Part Six: How to Keep From Worrying About Criticism Page: 87
Chapter 20: Remember That No One Ever Kicks a Dead Dog Page: 88
Chapter 21: Do This—and Criticism Can’t Hurt You Page: 89
Chapter 22: Fool Things I Have Done Page: 90
Part Seven : Six Ways to Prevent Six Ways to Prevent Fatigue and Worry And Keep Your Energy and Spirits High Page: 93
Chapter 23: How to Add One Hour a Day to Your Waking Life Page: 94
Chapter 24: What Makes You Tired—and What You Can Do About It Page: 96
Chapter 25: How to Avoid Fatigue—and Keep Looking Young! Page: 98
Chapter 26: Four Good Working Habits That Will Help Prevent Fatigue and Worry Page: 100
Chapter 27: How to Banish the Boredom That Produces Fatigue, Worry, and Resentment Page: 101
Chapter 28: How to Keep from Worrying About Insomnia Page: 104
Part Eight: “How I Conquered Worry” Page: 107
Six Major Troubles Hit Me All at Once Page: 108
I Can Turn Myself into a Shouting Optimist Within an Hour Page: 109
How I Got Rid of an Inferiority Complex Page: 110
I Lived in the Garden of Allah Page: 111
Five Methods I Have Used to Banish Worry Page: 112
I Stood Yesterday. I Can Stand Today Page: 113
I Did Not Expect to Live to See the Dawn Page: 114
I Go to the Gym to Punch the Bag or Take a Hike Outdoors Page: 115
I Was “The Worrying Wreck from Virginia Tech” Page: 116
I Have Lived by This Sentence Page: 117
I Hit Bottom and Survived Page: 118
I Used to Be One of the World’s Biggest Jackasses Page: 119
I Have Always Tried to Keep My Line of Supplies Open Page: 120
I Heard a Voice in India Page: 121
When the Sheriff Came in My Front Door Page: 122
The Toughest Opponent I Ever Fought Was Worry Page: 123
I Prayed to God to Keep Me Out of an Orphans’ Home Page: 124
My Stomach Was Twisting Like a Kansas Whirlwind Page: 125
I Learned to Stop Worrying by Watching My Wife Wash Dishes Page: 126
I Found the Answer Page: 127
Time Solves a Lot of Things! Page: 128
I Was Warned Not to Try to Speak or to Move Even a Finger Page: 129
I Am a Great Dismisser Page: 130
If I Had Not Stopped Worrying, I Would Have Been in My Grave Long Ago Page: 131
I Got Rid of Stomach Ulcers and Worry by Changing My Job and My Mental Attitude Page: 132
I Now Look for the Green Light Page: 133
How John D. Rockefeller Lived on Borrowed Time for Forty-five Years Page: 134
I Was Committing Slow Suicide Because I Didn’t Know How to Relax Page: 137
A Real Miracle Happened to Me Page: 138
How Benjamin Franklin Conquered Worry Page: 139
I Was So Worried I Didn’t Eat a Bite of Solid Food for Eighteen Days Page: 140
Index Page: 145
Footnotes Page: 148
Copyright Page Page: 150