How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie

First published in Great Britain in 1948 by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), Ltd., Bungay Suffolk. S.B.N. 437 95083 2

Carnegie says in the preface to HtSWaSL that he wrote it because he "was one of the unhappiest lads in New York". He said that he made himself sick with worry because he hated his position in life, which he attributes to wanting to figure out how to stop worrying.

HtSWaSL is written in ten parts, as follows:

Part One: Fundemntal facts you should know about worry

Part Two: Basic techniques in analysing worry

Part Three: How to break the worry habit before it breaks you

Part Four: Seven ways to cultivate a mental attitude that will bring you peace and happiness

Part Five: The golden rule for conquering worry

Part Six: How to keep from worrying about criticism

Part Seven: Six ways to prevent fatigue and worry and keep your energy and spirits high

Part Eight: How to find the kind of work in which you may be happy and successful

Part Nine: How to lessen your financial worries

Part Ten: "How I conquered worry"