How To Stop Worrying And Start Living

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Book Outline
How To Stop Worrying And Start Living
Dale Carnegie

How To Get The Most Out Of This Book
1. Develop a deep, driving desire to master the principles of conquering worry.
2. Reach each chapter twice before going on to the next one.
3. As you read, stop frequently to ask yourself how you can apply each suggestion.
4. Underscore each important idea.
5. Review this book each month.
6. Apply these principles at every opportunity. Use this volume as a working handbook to help you solve your daily problems.
7. Make a lively game out of your learning by offering some friend a quarter every time you are caught violating these principles.
8. Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.
9. Keep a diary in the back of this book showing how and when you have applied these principles.

PART ONE – Fundamental Facts You Should Know About Worry

Rule 1. If you want to avoid worry, do what Sir William Osler did: Live in “day-tight compartments.” Don’t stew about the future. Just live each day until bedtime.
Rule 2. The next time Trouble – with a Capital T – backs you up in a corner; try the magic formula of Willis H. Carrier:
a. Ask yourself, “What is the worst that can possibly happen if I can’t solve my problem?”
b. Prepare yourself mentally to accept the worst – if necessary.
c. Then calmly try to improve upon the worst – which you have already mentally agreed to accept.
Rule 3. Remind yourself of the exorbitant price you can pay for worry in terms of your health. “Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.”

PART TWO – Basic Techniques in Analyzing Worry

Rule 1. Get the facts. Remember that Dean Hawkes of Columbia University said that “half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to...