Dale Carneige's How to Stop... Outline for Summary

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From: Workplace/Communications/Writing Student Date: January 27th, 2015 RE: Outline for Summary 1 - What are Carnegie’s first 5 rules for dealing worry and how and why do they work? Who? Dale Carneige What? Dale Carnegie’s How to Stop Worrying and Start Living When? 1944 Why? To inform readers how to solve their anxieties effectively and be successfully achieve personal goals in living Rule 1: “How to managee 24hours-cycle productively” How did student in 19th century deal with the worry? - Passing the final exam, what to do, and how to make a living were what a medical student in Montreal 1871 worried about. - Twenty-one inspirable words (our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand) - Sir William Osler was an eminent physician. - He was just one of the ordinary students. What is the connection between worries and living today actively? - Secret success of Osler: shut off the past, future is today, there is no tomorrow - Only possible way to prepare for future; concentrate on today’s work - Bible: ask for today’s bread only - Have careful thought, planning and preparation but no anxiety for tomorrow - Good thinking (logical, constructive planning) ↔ bad thinking (tension and nervous breakdowns) Manage your plentiful tasks like Hourglass? - Thousands of grains of sand in the top = Hundreds of tasks given to us for a day - Pass slowly and evenly through the narrow = working steadily and over and over - One grain of sand at a time. One task at a time. Helpful quotations for living in a day? - Let the content live the only time we can possibly live: from now until bedtime. - "Anyone can carry his burden, however hard,

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