Rating: Summary: Stop worrying damnit! Review: I've read this book from cover to cover, and have to say it is the REAL DEAL. This is the only book you'll ever need about learning to stop worrying with real live examples and accurate facts.I was a bit skeptical at first because of other self-help books I read that turned out to be just crap, but that went away as soon as I read the book. After a bit of glancing through you will realize that Dale Carnegie spent a few good years trying to figure out how to put worry to rest FOREVER, and that advice is clearly stated within... And yes it's helped me stop worrying considerably, ESPECIALLY the first chapter: "Living in Day Time Compartments". Thanks!
Rating: Summary: This Book Was Like A Life Preserver... Review: Tossed to me at a time in my life when I was drowning in my worries. Oh, my worries were real enough, I had good cause to worry! Everyone said so. My husband died suddenly, then my teenage daughter got into drugs, dropped out of school and ran away! I worried so much my hair fell out!! And this went on for several YEARS! In this book I met other people who had good cause to worry, too. Those who shared their life experiences with Dale Carnegie, and gave him their best coping techniques so that he could compile them in a single text. They talked about how they dealt with the fear of war, or illness, or poverty, or lonliness and the worst one of all: despair. I read it over and over. I clung to the stories of people rising above their circumstances and making it through hard times. This book is FILLED with things you can do IMMEDIATELY to improve your life, practical concepts that REALLY WORK. Even though I am in a happier place in life at this time, I thank God for this book and the calm it brought me during my toughest years.
Rating: Summary: Remember... Review: This is a very down to earth book. He talks to you like an uncle. Ive read the Dahli llamas Art of Happieness, and this is like a layman version of that. But remember that these ideas can easily be forgotton when you put the book down. Dale even says that. Rememeber to keep reading this every few months to keep the ideas in your head. Habits are HARD to break. Read it a few times
Rating: Summary: This book saved my life! Review: I was a constant worrier. When I read this book, I thought Dale is in my head reading my mind and writing about it! Everything about this book is true. The book if full of interesting examples that if you are a worrier you will definitely find your type. With interesting data and statistics he calmes you down and takes most of your unreasonable worries off your shoulder! Read this book I highly recommend it!
Rating: Summary: Fire your Psychiatrist! Review: I have been a life-long worrier--so much so that I had an ulcer at the tender age of 21. I found this book in my college bookstore and have read and re-read it many times over the past 10 years. There are two very good things about this book 1) it puts everything into perspective very simply (In sum, worrying never solves anything. 2) It offers very good real life examples of other worriers to prove point 1. I truly consider this book to be a life saver and recommend it to anyone who has ever worried about not being worried about something. Throw away the Paxil and buy this book!
Rating: Summary: Overcome worry and depression Review: How to stop worrying and start living - in this book, Dale Carnegie helps you to overcome depression and worry: 1. Living for today - the load of tomorrow, added to that of yesterday, carried today, makes the strongest falter. 2. Analyzing problems - finding the root of your worries. 3. Keeping busy - how to loose yourself in action, so that you do not start worrying. 4. Unimportant things - why to focus on the important things and not to get upset by small things. 5. Changing the things you can change, accepting the things you cannot change. 6. Revenge: the fallacy of getting even with our enemies. 7. Thinking and acting cheerfully to become cheerful. 8. Be yourself - why you will only achieve success if you do not imitate others, but by finding yourself. 9. Turning a negative situation into a positive situation. 10. Criticism - often a disguised compliment.
Rating: Summary: Wonderful little book! Review: I love the stories Dale Carnegie tells to illustrate his point. This is a wonderful like motivational book. No, its not deep or profound, but it does present its basic ideas in a wonderfully engaging and richly engrossing way. I loved this book!
Rating: Summary: It's Really GOOD !! Review: I was having this book for a long time in my library, but recently i've read it, the techneques which was described in the book are very simple, easy to use and IT WORKS !! It will not stop you from worrying but for sure it will reduce it. I recommend anyone who is jobless or with a searious illness or dispert to read this book.
Rating: Summary: Horribly Boring Review: Possibly the most boring and obvious book in the world. If not for all the boring anecdotes, it would be OK. I couldn't get through the entire book!
Rating: Summary: Carnegie's done it again Review: It seems like such a silly thing to have to read a book on how to stop worrying, but trust me; you'll never learn as much any other way. Once again, Dale Carnegie proves to be the expert on self-motivation. Certainly this book won't cure you, but it will give you advice and insight on the better life you should be leading. A remarkably easy read. I do have one problem with Carnegie's book; he seems to focus a lot on religion, and to anyone who isn't "hip" with religion will find it distasteful. Also, I actually enjoyed his other book, How to Win Friends, more, but How to Stop Worrying is a nice addition into the self-help fanatic's library. If anything, it will slap you in the face and remind you that life is too important to waste time worrying about superficial matters. Some of us need that slap in the face.
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