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Summary: Best self-enhancment book read by far!!!
Review: At the beginning of a Dale Carnegie Course, we were given three books: "How To Stop Worrying and Start Living", "How to Win Friends and Influance People", and "The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking". Out of these books "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living" hits home with most individuals that worry too much about the past and future. This book shows examples and ways to overcome the sickness of worry that occures in our everyday lives. Thus, how to live a happy and healthy life. While reading "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living" you'll notice a lot of what is written applies to people you know and yourself. Again, best self-enhancment book read so far!
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Summary: This Really is a Great Book!
Review: I have to confess, I'm a chronic worrier. I was even back in high school when I found this book from my sister's Dale Carnegie course and began reading it. While it's been nearly 20 years since I read this book, I've been carrying its principles ever since. The best part of this book and Carnegie's other landmark, "How to Win Friends and Influence People," is it's all common sense. Sometimes, it's so easy to see the obvious until it's pointed out to you and illustrated with very easy to understand anecdotes. The book teaches you to live in day-tight compartments, to accept the worst-case scenario so you can be prepared to handle the consequences, to weigh the odds (Carnegie tells, for example, the story of how as a little boy he started crying because he thought he was going to be buried alive), etc. You won't find a lot of psycho-babble here, just real life experiences from real people to deal with an all too real problem.
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Summary: Wonderful advice!
Review: I received this book as a gift from a friend. First I was skeptical that it would help but I was amazed at all of the useful advice in this book! My life is really more enjoyable after reading this book. There is much less clutter in my life now, I and am much more efficient in getting things done. It is amazing what one simple book can do. I sort of became addicted to these types of books after this and so I went on to explore more. I recently read "The Ever-Transcending Spirit" by Toru Sato and it is also absolutely amazing! It has a more theoretical focus but life makes so much more sense after reading that book! Try it! I highly recommend these books!
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Summary: Dull
Review: I know that seems like a low rating for a classic author like Carnegie, so I feel compelled to let readers of this review know that it doesn't mean so much that I think the book is bad and not worth reading so much as it means I don't think the book is worth buying, which to me is an important distinction. The best things about it were that it was a quick read, and that Carnegie did have a bullet summaries at the end of each chapter, and a one page list of highlights for each section. All you really need to do is read those, and you've got the book. I may actually write some of those things down. That, essentially was my problem with it -- he didn't have a great deal to say, and yet he took over 300 pages to say it. I didn't even bother to read the last section (Thirty-One True Stories), as I could tell by scanning it that it'd just be more rehashing of the first seven parts. Essentially, this book could have been a pamphlet. It was very simplistic, and I'm sure that everyone has read all his suggestions and tips - some of which are useful and work, like keeping busy, and trying to change your thinking - from other sources. Alot of the advice is just common sense. And the examples were silly and too detailed; it got to where I was skipping over them and only reading the parts that were highlighted by the person who loaned me the book. Carnegie uses the word "worry" in such a broad way that it doesn't have a real meaning; in some cases what he calls "worry" to me seems more like a phobia - something a person would likely need professional assistance to address. Last, in general I found that that the book didn't flow - each chapter felt disconnected from the next. In general, this book is flawed, but it has some useful information that some people will be able to apply. I wouldn't pay money for this book (at least not much) but if worry is something that is getting you down, you could benefit from skimming the book for an hour or so. As I said initially, just read the bold type at the end of each chapter, and the summary at the end of each part.
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Summary: Here you can find the most basic steps for happiness
Review: This book contains not only the steps for a worry-free living : when applying its techniques and principles in
your day-to-day, you start to notice that you are a new
person, with much more capacity, and the results of your
acting became surprisingly better. It's probable that if
you learn and apply correctly what Dale Carnegie wrote many
years ago, you will solve very old problems, those very
complex problems that you had already given up(ex. relationships with people in family and work, general
organization of your life, bad memory, backwardness, etc.).
You will be able to do what you believed was an unchangable
weakness of yourself, and this will increase your
self-confidence.You may ask how can a book be so miraculous. The answer is :
this book is based in the toughts of the most wise men of
all times, including Jesus Crist, Willian James, Benjamin Franklin, Thoma Edison, and many others, together with the real experiences that Dale Carnegie made in his "lab of how to stop worrying".
Thus, in spite of not solving all the problems of
our lives, this book certainly contains precepts that every person should know, and is an obligatory reading for
those who are not completely happy with their lives.
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Summary: I'm so Lucky I found this Book
Review: I first read this book 3 years ago and I have not needed to read another self-help book since.
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Summary: Practical Handbook
Review: Carnegie's HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE is one of the classic "self-helps" of the 20th century. HOW TO STOP WORRYING is as inspirational and helpful as the former. Worry seems to be one of the greatest personal problem one can 'own' in our modern, western world. We worry a lot, it seems. And, lots of times, we worry about needless things. Carnegie's book is a practical, applicable, and easy-to-read handbook on conquering this modern dillema. In PART TEN of the book, the author included essays from people who have 'conquered' worries. One of my favourites would have to be an essay by a Colonel Eagan, where he informed us that everytime he worries he "GO THE GYM AND PUNCH THE BAG".
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Summary: Age-old advice still useful today
Review: This is my first Amazon.com review, but I was compelled to write since I found this book to have such a positive impact on my outlook on life. I picked up this book at least twice over the year, and put it back thinking that the information contained was probably no longer relevant or useful since it was written so long ago (1945). Instead, I bought other, more up-to-date books that didn't help my chronic worrying in the least. Finally, I bought this book - and was amazed to find this one little book has begun to change my outlook on life. True, the stories ARE old - some of them are about World War II veterans or people struggling through the Depression - but instead of finding them irrelevant, it instead made me realize two things - that people have been battling chronic worry for a long time (and that I am not alone) AND these people faced a lot more troubles that I have and were still able to overcome their fears and worries. It's true what other reviewers say - Carnegie does fill the book with age-old idioms (he quotes Lincoln, George Bernard Shaw and William James). But he puts it into such a context that I would often put the book down, and think, "He's right! I never thought of it that way." I've been through therapy and counselling, and it hasn't helped as much as this one little book. Whenever I start to feel anxious or have nagging worries, I turn to this book and read one of the many passages I have highlighted and I feel better instantly. Admittedly, this book may not help you if you have a severe anxiety disorder or depression. But if you are a chronic worrier, like me, you may find this book to be as invaluable as I do.
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Summary: How to Stop Worrying!
Review: Ever since I can remember, I worried over small things. Two years ago, a friend suggested this book and it really helped me. I realized that I had to stop obsessing over what I couldn't control. This great book also helped me to turn negative situations into positive ones. This is a great book which really does what it says it will do! If you want to rise above worry and emotional turmoil, and truly want to make the MOST of every situation, I totally recommend Optimal Thinking: How To Be Your Best Self. Optimal Thinking gives easy to use roadmaps for emotional mastery. You will not be disappointed with either of these books.
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Summary: A True Classic
Review: This was one of the early books in the self-help genre that has proliferated into such a mass movement today. A test of a classic is whether it stands the test of time and this book has. Its principles are for all times and places. This book will help you to think properly and act accordingly. Historically he gives some examples that enable you to see the results positive thinkers of previous generations received. The overarching goal is start small, be proactive, and results will occur. This is an easy to read, very inspiring book!
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