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How To Stop Worrying And Start Living



English | PDF | 1.35 MB | 239 Pages

Preface

How This Book Was Written-and Why

Thirty-Five years ago, I was one of the unhappiest lads in New York. I was selling motortrucks for a living.  I didn't know what made a motor-truck run. That wasn't all:  I didn't want to know.  I despised my job.  I despised  living  in a cheap furnished  room on West Fifty-sixth Street-a room infested with cockroaches. I still remember that I had a bunch of neckties hanging on  the walls; and when  I  reached out of a morning  to get a  fresh necktie, the cockroaches scattered  in all directions. I despised having to eat in cheap, dirty restaurants that were also probably infested with cockroaches.  I came home to my  lonely room each night with a sick headache-a headache bred and fed  by  disappointment,  worry,  bitterness,  and  rebellion.  I  was  rebelling  because  the dreams  I had nourished back  in my college days had  turned  into nightmares. Was  this life? Was this the vital adventure to which I had looked forward so eagerly? Was this all life would ever mean to me-working at a job I despised,
living with cockroaches, eating vile food-and with no hope for the future? ... I  longed for  leisure to read, and to write the books I had dreamed of writing back in my college days. I  knew  I had everything  to  gain and  nothing  to  lose by  giving up  the  job  I despised.  I wasn't  interested  in making  a  lot  of money,  but  I  was  interested  in making  a  lot  of living. In short, I had come to the Rubicon-to that moment of decision which faces most young  people  when  they  start  out  in  life.  So  I  made  my  decision-and  that  decision completely  altered  my  future.  It  has  made  the  last  thirty-five  years  happy  and rewarding beyond my most Utopian aspirations. My  decision was  this:  I would  give up  the work  I  loathed; and,  since  I had  spent  four years  studying  in  the  State  Teachers'  College  at Warrensburg,  Missouri,  preparing  to teach, I would make my living teaching adult classes in night schools. Then I would have my days free to read books, prepare 
lectures, write novels and short stories.  I wanted "to live to write and write to live".

What subject should  I teach to adults at night? As  I  looked back and evaluated my own college training, I saw that the training and experience I had had in public speaking had been of more  practical  value  to me  in business-and  in  life-than everything else  I had studied in college all put together. Why? Because it had wiped out my timidity and lack of confidence and given me the courage and assurance to deal with people. It had also made clear that leadership usually gravitates to the man who can get up and say what he thinks  I applied for a position teaching public speaking  in the night extension courses both at Columbia University and New York University, but these universities decided they could struggle along somehow without my help.I was  disappointed  then-but  I  now  thank God  that  they did  turn me  down,  because  I started  teaching  in Y.M.C.A.  night  schools, where  I had  to  show  concrete  results  and show them quickly. What a challenge that was! These adults didn't come to my
classes because they wanted college credits or social prestige. They came for one reason only: they wanted to solve their problems. They wanted to be able to stand up on their own feet and say a few words at a business meeting without fainting from fright. Salesmen wanted to be able to call on a tough customer without having to walk around the block three times to get up courage. They wanted to develop poise and self-confidence. They wanted to get ahead  in business. They wanted to have more money for their  families. And since they were paying their tuition on an installment basis-and they stopped paying if they didn't get  results-and  since  I was being paid, not a salary, but a percentage of the profits, I had to be practical if I wanted to eat.  I  felt at  the  time  that  I was  teaching under  a handicap,  but  I  realise  now  that  I was getting priceless training. I had to motivate my students. I had to help them solve their problems. 
I had to make each session so inspiring that they wanted to continue coming.

It was  exciting work.  I  loved  it.  I was  astounded  at  how  quickly  these  business men developed  self-confidence  and  how  quickly  many  of  them  secured  promotions  and increased  pay.  The  classes  were  succeeding  far  beyond  my  most  optimistic  hopes. Within three seasons, the Y.M.C.A.s, which had refused to pay me five dollars a night in salary, were  paying me  thirty dollars a night on a percentage  basis.  At  first,  I  taught only public speaking, but, as the years went by, I saw that these adults also needed the ability to win friends and  influence people. Since  I couldn't  find an adequate  textbook on human relations, I wrote one myself. It was written-no, it wasn't written in the usual way. It grew and evolved out of the experiences of the adults in these classes. I called it How to Win Friends and Influence People. 
Since  it  was  written  solely  as  a  textbook  for  my  own  adult  classes,  and  since  I  had written four other books that no one had ever heard of,  I never dreamed that it would have a large sale: I am probably one of the most astonished authors now living. 

As the years went by, I realised that another one of the biggest problems of these adults was worry. A  large majority  of my  students were business men-executives,  salesmen, engineers,  accountants:  a  cross  section  of  all  the  trades  and  professions-and most  of them had problems! There were women in the classes-business women and housewives. They,  too,  had  problems!  Clearly, what  I  needed was  a  textbook  on  how  to  conquer worry-so  again  I  tried  to  find  one.  I went  to  New  York's  great  public  library  at  Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street and discovered to my astonishment that this library had only twenty-two books listed under the title WORRY. I also noticed, to my amusement, that  it had one hundred and eighty-nine books  listed under WORMS. Almost nine  times as many books about worms as about worry! Astounding,  isn't  it? Since worry  is one of the  biggest  problems  facing mankind,  you would  think, wouldn't  you,  that  every  high school and college in the land
would give a course on "How to Stop Worrying"?................................

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