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Summary: How to stop worrying & start living
Review: Great book! Has the ability to change your life. Well worth the read.
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Summary: One of the most useful books ever written
Review: This book will teach you more practical techniques for healing yourself and others than a 4-year degree in psychology. It was the typical outstanding Carnegie book.
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Summary: If the principles are so obvious...
Review: ...why doesn't everyone following them? Because that's the biggest knock I've heard regarding this book. Some people are reading each chapter and coming away saying "well that's obvious." Folks, there isn't anything groundbreaking about this book. There isn't some type of genius method of instantly transforming your life around. It was written decades ago but the solid principles still apply today. For example, if you want to add years to your life, take a nap for an hour each day. Carnegie is then going to tell you exactly who did this and how it helped them transform their life. Read this book once, then twice, then a third time and start living these principles. They are simple but effective and they will, as the title implies, help you start living your life.
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Summary: This is possibly the best book I have ever read!
Review: My idea of a great book is one that makes sense, is practical, entertaining, thought provolking, one that you just don't want to put down, and you come away feeling like you really got something from it. This book is all that. Everyone should read it. At the time I wasn't in a particularly worrysome state so I thought the book would be a boring read, but not a chance! I loved it. This book should be read by everyone, not only people who tend to worry. It's in my library of favorites, for sure.
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Summary: Insightful!
Review: Dale Carnegie compiles time tested wisdom in this book of principles on how to avoid worrying about problems you can't affect. Carnegie outlines some basic principles to help you stop worrying. He draws from common sense, from people who have achieved peace and happiness, and from the sayings of philosophers, business leaders and others. Although Carnegie wrote his book in the 1940's and some of his examples may seem dated, his basic principles are timeless - in fact, ahead of his time. He presents them in an easy-to-read, personal way. He draws on his own and other people's experiences to show a number of techniques for letting go of worries and becoming more productive. We at getAbstract recommend this self-development classic to everyone.
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Summary: Especially Important for its Unintended Meaning
Review: The most interesting thing about this incredible book isn't the time-tested, practical advice (although there is much of that), nor the potentially life-changing observations on "how to live" (although they also abound). No, the most important lesson of HOW TO STOP WORRYING comes from an unintended source...and tells us a lot about how the world has changed.This book was published nearly half a century ago, and was based on observations from the first half of the twentieth century. Does that make it a hopeless anachronism? Just the opposite...it shows us how far we've fallen in one very important respect: Our willingness to take responsibility for outr actions. Consider this: Every single bit of advice in this book is based on the premise that you, the reader, are responsible for your own destiny, and must personally take action in your own life...not wait for the government or a pill or someone else to take care of it for you. Not once is anyone in this book characterized as a "victim" (although many come under great misfortune). If this book were to be written today, the fault for it's subject's problems would lie entirely with external forces, as would all of the remedies. I find it interesting that the overall term used to describe the problem this book attempts to solve ("worry"), is one that we never hear these days. In today's world, we say that someone is "stressed" to describe the same symptoms. Why? Because "worry" is something one does to one's self, and "stress" comes from the outside. We no longer want to acknowledge responsibility for anything. I'll be the first to admit that we know much more today about the cause of mental and physical problems than we did when this book was written. But any open-minderd reader of this volume will have to admit that, in many respects, we've gone backward. This was self-help for what Tom Brokaw calls "the greatest generation", and I recommend it highly.
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Summary: The Best Self-Help Book of All Time..
Review: This book is loaded with common sense, which unfortunately today is such an uncommon thing. If you read this book in its entirety, then read it again and again, you will come to see that you have choices in every moment that you can use to make yourself happy or miserable. It's just that simple. But simple doesn't mean easy-you have to practice over and over again because long held ways of thinking and behaving don't yield to change overnight. Using notable luminaries and average folks, Dale Carnegie doesn't take off on some grand flight of fancy into vague esotericism, but stays wonderfully grounded in offering the tools to a better way of life. Especially helpful is the advice to live in "day-tight compartments" and to challenge yourself to accept the worst while preparing to make the best out of any difficulty you may encounter. Also, his idea of religion/spirituality is one of the healthiest I have ever read. He says he has no interest in the creeds that separate people from each other, but has come to appreciate speaking with God simply as something wonderful he can do for himself that yields practical results. Just as fresh water, air, and rest benefit the body, so does a healthy spirituality benefit the mind and soul. At the end of the book are testimonials from all types of people on how they banished worry from their lives and truly began to live again. This book is inspiring, informative, motivational, and comforting. If you read this with an open mind, you will realize that there is really never anything to "worry about" and you will be in command of that most precious of gifts we humans are given: the power of the mind and will to live life in a self-determined way. This is THE classic and if properely appreciated and understood will change your life forever. Quite simply, the best of its kind. Ever.
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Summary: Good Advise, Well Written
Review: Mr. Carnegie's first book, How to Make Friends and Influence People, is one of my favorites. I would highly recommend it. This book, his second, is also good and well worth reading. Its approach is similiar to his first book. Mr. Carnegie argues by example. He talks about how different people have improved their lives and gives examples from their experiences. Most of the stories are very moving and inspirational. The writing style is also easy to read and enjoyable. The truth is, however, that some of the stories actually depressed me. I also am so familiar with his first book that is was hard to add to it. But, there is much here to recommend about this book. It is a worthy self help book, one that you should buy if you worry too much or are depressed. A book that says it will help you "start living" and does. Impressive.
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Summary: Good
Review: This book has good advice. There is advice from famous people, too, like Gene Autry and Lawrence of Arabia. Some reviews here have stated how "old" some of this advice is, since the book was published a long time ago. But if you study Buddhism and such things, you'll see that most of this advice is actually thousands of years old! (Carnegie himself quotes Jesus advice to "Have no thought for tomorrow" as in don't worry about the future so much...so that is thousands of years old, too.) This is a very readable book, and helpful, and has advice helpful for even those who don't worry that much.
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Summary: Lifesaver
Review: This review is for the book itself. I picked up this book from a street shop while waiting for a bus in bombay. At that time I had some problems in my life and I was on verge of considering myself a unlucky person. But as I started reading this book I understood that the person I could blame for all my shortcomings was myself. To live a rich and happy life I had to change myself instead of expecting the world to change. This book changed my view towards the world and people around me, completely. I started to use many advices from the book and found them to work for me. Whenever I tend to worry I use these methods. It is wise, practicle and simple. I am sure that the cassettes too contain all the good things about this book. I will recommend this book to everybody who wishes to get rid of worries and learn to live a happy and positive life.
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