Book Recommendation: “How To Stop Worrying and Start Living" by, DALE CARNEGIE

By: Luna Gjorgieva

About the Author:

Dale Carnegie was born November 24, 1888 and died November 1, 1955. He was an American writer, but also a teacher of courses for self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills.

About the book:

In the opening section, “How This Book Was Written - and Why,” Dale Carnegie explains that "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living" was born out of personal struggle and practical experience, not theory. He shares how he once felt trapped and unhappy in New York, working at a job he disliked, until he made a bold decision to change his life and begin teaching adult classes. Through years of teaching, he discovered that worry was one of the greatest problems people faced. Worrying affected executives, salesmen, housewives, and professionals alike. When he searched for a useful, practical guide on overcoming worry, he found almost nothing that could truly help his students. So he decided to create one himself. The book grew out of real classroom experiments, interviews with successful individuals, research into the lives of great thinkers, and firsthand reports from ordinary people who had conquered worry. Carnegie emphasizes that the book does not present new philosophies, but practical, time-tested principles that must be applied. The real issue, he argues, is not ignorance, as people already know many of these truths, but failure to act on them.

Our opinion of the book and why i recommend it

This book showed us that the most of the problems that we have are only coming from our mind, i love this book and I would definitely recommend it to the people who worry too much, because from worrying too much we only create problems for our body. Our body gets tired and gets sick. This book taught me to worry less and focus on the things within my control.

Some of the quotes in the book :

“When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.”

“The best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.”

“Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember Life is too short to be little."

“Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody and something other than the person he is in body and mind.”