In this day and age, people tend to spend a lot of time worrying about life and circumstances. As a result, excessive stress and worry often get in the way of leading a happy fruitful life. Dale Carnegie wrote the book, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, with the intent to inspire his students with stories of how people have overcome tremendous odds and turned bleak situations into positive ones. The book analyses what causes us to worry and offers solutions in the form of simple steps to make life more peaceful.
Today, it is no surprise that How to Stop Worrying and Start Living serves as a bible to those seeking to overcome their worries and focusing their energy on finding peace and happiness. One of the central ideas of the book is that dealing with the inevitable becomes easier when we accept that it is beyond our control. An international bestseller, it provides tips and tricks that can be easily implemented in one's everyday life. With real-life stories serving as illustrations, Carnegie's self-help masterpiece makes for an engaging account for people looking to overcome anxiety.
One of the most famous self-help books of all time, How to Win Friends and Influence People remains an enduring classic. Essentially a series of tips about how to get along with other people, it contains advice related to being an effective part of the workplace. In this book, Carnegie presents his philosophy of human interaction and how to make the most of workplace relationships. Filled with quirky insights on human behaviour, the book provides an understanding of how people usually think. Carnegie claims that things become easier when people realize they have common objectives and work towards achieving them together as a team.
The book celebrates positive thinking and encourages people to change their outlook when they can't change the situation they are in. A unique blend of psychology and business strategies, How to Win Friends and Influence People lays down fundamental ways in which people can avoid arguments and work together more effectively. Well researched and documented, with lessons from some of the greatest American leaders, the book takes simple ideas like being humble and applies them to the business setup. Since its release, the book has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide, with its timeless advice on scaling heights in one's professional as well as personal life.
First published during the Great Depression, Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich continues to be a bestselling self-help book. It has also been listed in John C. Maxwell's 'A Lifetime Must Read Books List'. Based on Hill's earlier work, The Law of Success, the text represents the wisdom of highly successful men. The book offers ideas on how these successful men, including Andrew Carnegie, mastered the secret of growing and lasting success. Hill closely studied their practices and habits and formulated fourteen principles in the form of Philosophy of Achievement. However, the book is much more than about earning money, and its teachings hold true for everyone, irrespective of their line of work. The book motivates readers to overcome and suppress any negative thoughts hindering their path to success by persisting towards their long-term goals, having faith, and by maintaining their desire to achieve them. The book asserts that an intense passion for one's goal is the primary key to success.
Authored by the pioneers of self-improvement, The Art of Public Speaking suggests some of the best methods in developing and honing one's skills inpublic speaking and in developing self-confidence. The book offers foundational lessons for those attempting to overcome their fear of facing a crowd by working and practising upon their oratory skills. Dale Carnegie and Joseph Esenwein's experience and expertise in public and creative speaking enabled them to lay down specific skills, such as gaining efficiency in oration and speech through the change of pitch and pace, identifying distinction and precision in utterance, and so on in influencing one's audience. The book continues to be a bestseller and an evergreen learning experience for many individuals seeking to develop and grow as an effective speaker.
Being an effective public speaker is an invaluable skill. Yet, most people have an innate fear of speaking before large crowds. In this book, Dale Carnegie shows people how they can easily overcome their fear of public speaking and reach a point where they, in fact, begin enjoying it! The book provides rock-solid advice on how to communicate more effectively, by developing poise and confidence; improving one's diction; as well as making and winning arguments. Carnegie focuses on his core idea that everyone is capable of being a great speaker and that it is just a matter of practice. The book is relevant not only for learning how to make an effective speech before large crowds, but also for communication in personal settings, such as dealing with customers and participating in meetings at work. With its superb collection of practical tips on how to communicate better, How to Develop Self-Confidence and Influence People has been winning hearts since its publication in 1926.
1984 is a dystopian, political, science-fiction novel depicting a totalitarian government. 'Inspired' by the political situation in Russia and Germany, 1984 talks about a repressive regime that places all of its citizens under surveillance. It depicts how politics can manipulate facts to serve its own purposes.
It is the year 1984 and the world is at war. Great Britain, now called Airstrip One, has turned totalitarian and oppressive, using the Thought Police to curb individuals from having thoughts against what the regime dictates. Winston Smith is a dutiful citizen and worker for the Party. But it's all a façade, for all he dreams of is overthrowing the regime. These thoughts are fuelled when a forbidden relationship causes him to recollect memories of life before the Party. But a totalitarian regime implementing mass surveillance isn't to be taken lightly. Heavy retribution is in store if the Thought Police were to catch wind of his traitorous thoughts.
Published in 1949, this spine-chilling classic was George Orwell's last before his death in 1950. Orwell's descriptions of government's functioning within a framework of organized totalitarianism quickly shot 1984 into the top-tier of the dystopian fiction genre. Time and again, the real world becomes a mirror of what the book describes instead of what it is intended to be: a model of how governments are not supposed to function.