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How to Stop Worrying and Start Living » (Abridged, 9 CDs, 10 hrs. 25 min.)

Book cover image of How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie

Authors: Dale Carnegie, Andrew MacMillan (Narrated by), Andrew MacMillan
ISBN-13: 9780671574581, ISBN-10: 0671574582
Format: Compact Disc
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Date Published: December 1999
Edition: Abridged, 9 CDs, 10 hrs. 25 min.

Author Biography: Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie was a pioneer in public speaking and personality development. He became famous by showing others how to become successful. His book How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold more than 10 million copies and has been translated into many languages. His books became popular because of his illustrative stories and simple, well-phrased rules. Two of his most famous maxims are, "Believe that you will succeed, and you will," and "Learn to love, respect and enjoy other people." His other books include How to Stop Worrying and Start Living and Public Speaking and Influencing People in Business

Book Synopsis

Simon & Schuster Audio is proud to present one of the best-selling books of all time, Dale Carnegie's perennial classic How to Stop Worrying and Start Living -- presented here in its entirety on 9 compact discs.

Through Dale Carnegie's seven-million-copy bestseller, recently revised, millions of people have been helped to overcome the worry habit. Dale Carnegie offers a set of practical formulas you can put to work today -- formulas that will last a lifetime! Discover how to:

Eliminate fifty percent of business worries immediately

Reduce financial worries

Turn criticism to your advantage

Avoid fatigue -- and keep looking young

Add one hour a day to your waking life

Find yourself and be yourself -- remember, there is no one on earth like you!

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living deals with fundamental emotions and ideas. It is fascinating to listen to and easy to apply. Let it change and improve you. There's no...

Library Journal

Originally published in 1936, this is the archetype of the practical human relations handbook. Carnegie (How To Stop Worrying and Start Living, Audio Reviews, LJ 2/15/99) opens with fundamental techniques for dealing with people, such as refraining from criticism and expressing sincere appreciation. Making people like you by smiling, remembering names, and being a good listener are encouraged. Final sections describe approaches for persuading people to your way of thinking and how to change people without causing offense or resentment. These positive principles are stated succinctly and illustrated with pertinent, if occasionally outmoded, anecdotes. While critics have charged that Carnegie emphasized good manners and friendliness over proficiency, the author clearly states that his target audience is competent individuals who are less than successful because they lack people skills, a group that would be well served by his sensible guidance. Andrew MacMillan's confident, friendly narration is a worthy counterpart for Carnegie's advice, making this an appropriate selection for libraries that don't own the 1989 unabridged recording that includes the printed volume (LJ 4/1/89).--Linda Bredengerd, Hanley Lib., Univ. of Pittsburgh, Bradford, PA

	Preface
	How This Book Was Written--and Why	xiii
	Nine Suggestions on How to Get the Most Out of This Book	xviii
Part 1	Fundamental Facts You Should Know About Worry
1	Live in "Day-tight Compartments"	3
2	A Magic Formula for Solving Worry Situations	14
3	What Worry May Do to You	21
Part 2	Basic Techniques in Analyzing Worry
4	How to Analyze and Solve Worry Problems	35
5	How to Eliminate Fifty Per Cent of Your Business Worries	44
Part 3	How to Break the Worry Habit Before it Breaks You
6	How to Crowd Worry Out of Your Mind	51
7	Don't Let the Beetles Get You Down	60
8	A Law That Will Outlaw Many of Your Worries	67
9	Co-operate with the Inevitable	73
10	Put a "Stop-Loss" Order on Your Worries	82
11	Don't Try to Saw Sawdust	89
Part 4	Seven Ways to Cultivate A Mental Attitude That Will Bring You Peace and Happiness
12	Eight Words That Can Transform Your Life	99
13	The High Cost of Getting Even	111
14	If You Do This, You Will Never Worry About Ingratitude	119
15	Would You Take a Million Dollars for What You Have?	125
16	Find Yourself and Be Yourself: Remember There Is No One Else on Earth Like You	131
17	If You Have a Lemon, Make a Lemonade	138
18	How to Cure Depression in Fourteen Days	145
Part 5	The Perfect Way to Conquer Worry
19	How My Mother and Father Conquered Worry	161
Part 6	How to Keep From Worrying about Criticism
20	Remember That No One Ever Kicks a Dead Dog	181
21	Do This--and Criticism Can't Hurt You	185
22	Fool Things I Have Done	189
Part 7	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	197
24	What Makes You Tired--and What You Can Do About It	202
25	How to Avoid Fatigue--and Keep Looking Young!	207
26	Four Good Working Habits That Will Help Prevent Fatigue and Worry	212
27	How to Banish the Boredom That Produces Fatigue, Worry, and Resentment	217
28	How to Keep from Worrying About Insomnia	225
Part 8	"How I Conquered Worry"
	Six Major Troubles Hit Me All at Once	235
	I Can Turn Myself into a Shouting Optimist Within an Hour	237
	How I Got Rid of an Inferiority Complex	238
	I Lived in the Garden of Allah	242
	Five Methods I Have Used to Banish Worry	245
	I Stood Yesterday. I Can Stand Today	247
	I Did Not Expect to Live to See the Dawn	248
	I Go to the Gym to Punch the Bag or Take a Hike Outdoors	250
	I Was "The Worrying Wreck from Virginia Tech"	251
	I Have Lived by This Sentence	252
	I Hit Bottom and Survived	253
	I Used to Be One of the World's Biggest Jackasses	254
	I Have Always Tried to Keep My Line of Supplies Open	255
	I Heard a Voice in India	258
	When the Sheriff Came in My Front Door	260
	The Toughest Opponent I Ever Fought Was Worry	262
	I Prayed to God to Keep Me Out of an Orphans' Home	263
	My Stomach Was Twisting Like a Kansas Whirlwind	265
	I Learned to Stop Worrying by Watching My Wife Wash Dishes	267
	I Found the Answer	269
	Time Solves a Lot of Things!	270
	I Was Warned Not to Try to Speak or to Move Even a Finger	272
	I Am a Great Dismisser	273
	If I Had Not Stopped Worrying, I Would Have Been in My Grave Long Ago	274
	I Got Rid of Stomach Ulcers and Worry by Changing My Job and My Mental Attitude	275
	I Now Look for the Green Light	276
	How John D. Rockefeller Lived on Borrowed Time for Forty-five Years	278
	I Was Committing Slow Suicide Because I Didn't Know How to Relax	284
	A Real Miracle Happened to Me	284
	How Benjamin Franklin Conquered Worry	286
	I Was So Worried I Didn't Eat a Bite of Solid Food for Eighteen Days	287
	Index	293