How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

[shazie]

I love this book by Dale Carnegie. I am sure there are lessons in this book for all of us to learn.

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[Cllcanada Top Poster CURE Hero]

The book is online here... free

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[Newdawn Administrator]

I read this book many moons ago (pre cancer days). I gave up on it after a few chapters if I'm totally honest. Yes there are inspirational stories and anecdotes of how improved entrepreneurial skills save businesses and sanity. The message seems to be contemplation of considering the worst possible scenario and planning for it rather than worrying about it. It's a good book about positive living in general and changing a mind set to release negative lifestyles and outcomes. I think my mistake was in thinking it might have more of a psychologically evidenced base.

I found it simplistic but well meaning like all these rah rah books. It is very dated and there are pearls of wisdom contained within. Some are thought provoking I agree. But the main tenet of the book seemed to be how to 'cooperate with the inevitable' or suffer the consequences.

Unfortunately it never seems to reach the point of advising on how to actually achieve that worry free, accepting state of nirvana. A quote from the book;

'For every ailment under the sun,

There is a remedy or there is none;

If there be one, try to find it, if there be none, never mind it.'

I'm afraid I'm reluctant to take medical advice from a Mother Goose rhyme

But it has a charming simplicity for everyday worry that may be difficult to apply to an uncertain cancer diagnosis.

(Sorry to sound grumpy about it, I'm not really an out of control worry bunny!)

Newdawn

[grizzlebear in reply to Newdawn]

Its rather like the theory of CBT counselling in that the worrying about negative situations that could arise will actually do you more harm than what would happen if that situation actually did happen. We all determine how we feel about things with an initial pre determined thought , the trick is to replace it with a happier thought and laugh the bad thought away. Although i live in the UK i have had much help from an Aussie workbook

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