How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

For the first time in trade paperback comes Dale Carnegie's classic, six-million copy bestselling guide to taking action and reducing life's worries.

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) described himself as a “simple country boy” from Missouri but was also a pioneer of the self-improvement genre. Since the 1936 publication of his first book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, he has touched millions of readers and his classic works continue to impact lives to this day. Visit DaleCarnegie.com for more information.

Contents PREFACE

• How This Book Was Written -- and Why
• Nine Suggestions on How to Get the Most out of This Book PART ONE 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 PART TWO BASIC TECHNIQUES IN ANALYZING WORRY
• 4 How to Analyze and Solve Worry Problems
• 5 How to Eliminate Fifty Per Cent of Your Business Worries PART THREE HOW TO BREAK THE WORRY HABIT BEFORE IT BREAKS YOU
• 6 How to Crowd Worry Out of Your Mind
• 7 Don't Let the Beetles Get You Down
• 8 A Law That Will Outlaw Many of Your Worries
• 9 Co-operate with the Inevitable
• 10 Put a "Stop-Loss" Order on Your Worries
• 11 Don't Try to Saw Sawdust PART FOUR SEVEN WAYS TO CULTIVATE A MENTAL ATTITUDE THAT WILL BRING YOU PEACE AND HAPPINESS
• 12 Eight Words That Can Transform Your Life
• 13 The High Cost of Getting Even
• 14 If You Do This, You Will Never Worry About Ingratitude
• 15 Would You Take a Million Dollars for What You Have?
• 16 Find Yourself and Be Yourself: Remember There Is No One Else on Earth Like You
• 17 If You Have a Lemon, Make a Lemonade
• 18 How to Cure Depression in Fourteen Days PART FIVE THE PERFECT WAY TO CONQUER WORRY
• 19 How My Mother and Father Conquered Worry PART SIX HOW TO KEEP FROM WORRYING ABOUT CRITICISM
• 20 Remember That No One Ever Kicks a Dead Dog
• 21 Do This -- and Criticism Can't Hurt You
• 22 Fool Things I Have Done PART SEVEN 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
• 24 What Makes You Tired -- and What You Can Do About It
• 25 How to Avoid Fatigue -- and Keep Looking Young!
• 26 Four Good Working Habits That Will Help Prevent Fatigue and Worry
• 27 How to Banish the Boredom That Produces Fatigue, Worry, and Resentment
• 28 How to Keep from Worrying About Insomnia PART EIGHT "HOW I CONQUERED WORRY" 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 have Used 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 Orphans' Home by Kathleen Halter My Stomach Was Twisting Like a Kansas Whirlwind by Cameron Shipp I Learned to Stop Worrying by Watching My Wife Wash Dishes by Reverend William Wood I Found the Answer 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 I Got Rid of Stomach Ulcers and Worry by Changing My Job and My Mental Attitude by Arden W. Sharpe I Now Look for the Green Light by Joseph M. Cotter How John D. Rockefeller Lived on Borrowed Time for Forty-five Years 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 How Benjamin Franklin Conquered Worry I Was so Worried I Didn't Eat a Bite of Solid Food for Eighteen Days by Kathryne Holcombe Farmer INDEX