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

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