How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living  
Author(s) Dale Carnegie
Country USA
Language English
Genre(s) Self-help
Publisher Simon and Schuster (1948)
Publication date 1948

How to stop Worrying and Start Living is a self-help book by Dale Carnegie. It was first printed in Great Britain in 1948 by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), Ltd., Bungay Suffolk (S.B.N. 437 95083 2). It is currently published as a Mass Market Paperback of 352 pages by Pocket (Revised edition: September 15, 1990), ISBN 0671733354.

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 lifestyle, 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.

Contents

Sections

There are 8 Sections.

Fundamental Facts You Should Know About Worry

  1. Live in "Day-tight Compartments"
  2. A Magic Formula for Solving Worry Situations
  3. What Worry May Do to You

Basic Techniques In Analyzing Worry

  1. How to Analyze and Solve Worry Problems
  2. How to Eliminate Fifty Per Cent of Your Business Worries

How to Break the Worry Habit Before It Breaks You

  1. How to Crowd Worry Out of Your Mind
  2. Don't Let the Beetles Get You Down
  3. A Law That Will Outlaw Many of Your Worries
  4. Cooperate with the Inevitable
  5. Put a "Stop-Loss" Order on Your Worries
  6. Don't Try to Saw Sawdust

Seven Ways to Cultivate A Mental Attitude That Will Bring You Peace and Happiness

  1. Eight Words That Can Transform Your Life
  2. The High Cost of Getting Even
  3. If You Do This, You Will Never Worry about Ingratitude
  4. Would You Take a Million Dollars for What You Have?
  5. Find Yourself and Be Yourself (Remember There Is No One Else on Earth Like You)
  6. If You Have a Lemon, Make a Lemonade
  7. How to Cure Depression in Fourteen Days

The Perfect Way to Conquer Worry

  1. How My Mother and Father Conquered Worry

How To Keep From Worrying About Criticism

  1. Remember That No One Ever Kicks a Dead Dog
  2. Do This—and Criticism Can't Hurt You
  3. Fool Things I Have Done

Six Ways to Prevent Fatigue and Worry and Keep Your Energy and Spirits High

  1. How to Add One Hour a Day to Your Waking Life
  2. What Makes You Tired (and What You Can Do about It)
  3. How to Avoid Fatigue—and Keep Looking Young!
  4. Four Good Working Habits That Will Help Prevent Fatigue and Worry
  5. How to Banish the Boredom That Produces Fatigue, Worry, and Resentment
  6. How to Keep from Worrying about Insomnia

"How I Conquered Worry"

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