《人性的优点》一书中，作者戴尔•卡耐基对共同的人性、相通的心理进行了通俗的揭示，可以说是他一生很重要、很生动的人生经验。书中记录了人们摆脱焦虑、忧愁等心理困境，过上快乐生活的方法，以及走向成功的实际案例，帮助读者认清自己，相信自己，服焦虑，充分开发潜在能力，发挥人性的优点，开拓成功美好的新生活。
Sixteen Ways in Which This Book Will Help You
1. Gives you a number of practical, tested formulas for solving worry situations.
2. Shows you how to eliminate fifty percent of your business worries immediately.
3. Brings you seven ways to cultivate a mental attitude that will bring you peace and happiness.
4. Shows you how to lessen financial worries.
5. Explains a law that will outlaw many of your worries.
6. Tells you how to turn criticism to your advantage.
7. Shows how the housewife can avoid fatigue—and keep looking young.
8. Gives four working habits that will help prevent fatigue and worry.
9. Tells you how to add one hour a day to your working life.
10. Shows you how to avoid emotional upsets.
11. Gives you the stories of scores of everyday men and women, who tell you in their own words how they stopped worrying and started living.
12. Gives you Alfred Adler’s prescription for curing melancholia in fourteen days.
13. Gives you the 21 words that enabled the world-famous physician, Sir William Osier, to banish worry.
14. Explains the three magic steps that Willis H. Carrier, founder of the air-conditioning industry, uses to conquer worry.
15. Shows you how to use what William James called “the sovereign cure for worry.”
16. Gives you details of how many famous men conquered worry— men like Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times; Herbert E. Hawkes, former Dean of Columbia University; Ordway Tead, Chairman of the Board of Higher Education, New York City; Jack Dempsey; Connie Mack; Roger W. Babson; Admiral Byrd; Henry Ford; Gene Autry; J. C. Penney; and John D. Rockefeller.
CONTENTS
Sixteen Ways in Which This Book Will Help You……………………… 1
Preface How This Book Was Written—and Why… ………………… 3
Part One Fundamental Facts You Should Know About Worry
Chapter 1 Live in “Day-tight Compartments”………………………… 3
Chapter 2 A Magic Formula for Solving Worry Situations……………15
Chapter 3 What Worry May Do to You… ……………………………23
Part Two Basic Techniques in Analysing Worry
Chapter 4 How to Analyse and Solve Worry Problems… ……………39
Chapter 5 How to Eliminate Fifty Percent of Your Business Worries ...…47
Part Three How to Break the Worry Habit Before It Breaks You
Chapter 6 How to Crowd Worry Out of Your Mind… ………………55
Chapter 7 Don’t Let the Beetles Get You Down………………………65
Chapter 8 A Law That Will Outlaw Many of Your Worries……………73
Chapter 9 Co-operate with the Inevitable… …………………………80
Chapter 10 Put a “ Stop-Loss” Order on Your Worries… ……………91
Chapter 11 Don’t Try to Saw Sawdust…………………………………99
Part Four Seven Ways to Cultivate a Mental Attitude That Will Bring You Peace and Happiness
Chapter 12 Eight Words That Can Transform Your Life…………… 109
Chapter 13 The High Cost of Getting Even………………………… 124
Chapter 14 If You Do This, You Will Never Worry About Ingratitude……134
Chapter 15 Would You Take a Million Dollars for What You Have?……141
Chapter 16 Find Yourself and Be Yourself: Remember There Is No
One Else on Earth Like You…………………………… 149
Chapter 17 If You Have a Lemon, Make a Lemonade……………… 157
Chapter 18 How to Cure Melancholy in Fourteen Days…………… 166
Part Five The Golden Rule for Conquering Worry
Chapter 19 How My Mother and Father Conquered Worry… …… 185
Part Six How to Keep from Worrying About Criticism
Chapter 20 Remember That No One Ever Kicks a Dead Dog…… 209
Chapter 21 Do This—and Criticism Can’t Hurt You… …………… 213
Chapter 22 Fool Things I Have Done……………………………… 218
Part Seven Six Ways to Prevent Fatigue and Worry and Keep Your Energy and Spirits High
Chapter 23 How to Add One Hour a Day to Your Waking Life…… 227
Chapter 24 What Makes You Tired—and What You Can Do About It …232
Chapter 25 How the Housewife Can Avoid Fatigue—and Keep Looking Young 237
Chapter 26 Four Good Working Habits That Will Help Prevent Fatigue and Worry……………………………………………… 243
Chapter 27 How to Banish the Boredom That Produces Fatigue, Worry,
and Resentment………………………………………… 249
Chapter 28 How to Keep from Worrying About Insomnia………… 258
Part Eight How to Find the Kind of Work in Which You May Be Happy and Successful
Chapter 29 The Major Decision of Your Life……………………… 269
Part Nine How to Lessen Your Financial Worries
Chapter 30 “Seventy Percent of All Our Worries....”……………… 281
Part Ten “How I Conquered Worry” —32 True Stories
Six Major Troubles Hit Me All at Once……………………………… 297
I Can Turn Myself into a Shouting Optimist Within an Hour … …… 301
How I Got Rid of an Inferiority Complex …………………………… 302
I Lived in the Garden of Allah … …………………………………… 307
Five Methods I Use to Banish Worry ………………………………… 311
I Stood Yesterday. I Can Stand Today … …………………………… 315
I Did Not Expect to Live to See the Dawn … ……………………… 317
I Go to the Gym to Punch the Bag or Take a Hike Outdoors … …… 319
I Was “the Worrying Wreck from Virginia Tech” …………………… 320
I Have Lived by This Sentence ……………………………………… 323
I Hit Bottom and Survived …………………………………………… 324
I Used to Be One of the World’s Biggest Jackasses ………………… 326
I Have Always Tried to Keep My Line of Supplies Open …………… 328
I Heard a Voice in India ……………………………………………… 332
When the Sheriff Came in My Front Door … ……………………… 335
The Toughest Opponent I Ever Fought Was Worry … ……………… 338
I Prayed to God to Keep Me Out of an Orphan’s Home … ………… 340
I Was Acting Like a Hysterical Woman ……………………………… 342
I Learned to Stop Worrying by Watching My Wife Wash Dishes …… 346
I Found the Answer—Keep Busy! …………………………………… 349
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Setbacks ……………………………………………………………… 379
I Was So Worried I Didn’t Eat a Bite of Solid Food for Eighteen Days … ……380
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