12 July 2023

#BookReview How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie

 

About The Book

This Book can change your future The common habit of worrying directly affects your work, money, personal relationships, and family life.

Fundamental facts about worry and magic formula for solving worry situations, how to banish worry and anxiety to lead a fuller, more active, and happier life, how to eliminate financial worries, how to eliminate financial worries, how to immediately reduce business worries by at least half, how to turn criticism to your advantage, seven ways to cultivate a mental attitude that will bring you peace and happiness, six ways to prevent fatigue and stress - and keep looking young, how to add one hour a day to your waking life...

And much more!

My Thoughts

Anyone who knows me even a little bit knows that my daily work is to overthink and worry.

I am literally one of the most worried person you will ever meet. At the same time, I never like self-help books as I find them pretentious and overgeneralization.

I brought this book long back and it was hiding somewhere in my Kindle library.

Recently, I started reading the book and to some extent, it helped me.

The book's purpose is to guide the reader to a more joyful and satisfying existence by assisting them in being more aware of not just themselves, but also those around them.

Some of the techniques the book suggests and I started following are

• Use the law of averages to outlaw your worries

• Cooperate with the Inevitable

• Decide just how much anxiety a thing may be worth and refuse to give it more

Overall, this is a decent book, with the advice available all around us, written in a constructive and structured way.

Book Links

Amazon India | Amazon USA

About the Author

An American writer, lecturer, and developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills, Dale Carnegie was born in 1888 in Maryville, Missouri.

Public Speaking: A Practical Course for Business Men (1926) was the first collection of Carnegie’s writings. it was later entitled Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business (1932). How to Win Friends and Influence People, when published by Simon and Schuster in 1936, became an instant bestseller. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948) introduces the fundamental facts that one must know about worry and provides the perfect way to conquer it. 

How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job is a collection of selected chapters from How to Win Friends and Influence People and How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. With ways to bring peace and happiness in life and achieve a work-life balance, this book will make one reassess their approach to life, people, and their job.

Author on the Web

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