人性的优点

章节摘录

Forty-two years later, on a soft spring night when the tulips were blooming on the campus, this man, Sir William Osler, addressed the students of Yale University. He told those Yale students that a man like himself who had been a professor in four universities and had written a popular book was supposed to have "brains of a special quality". He declared that that was untrue. He said that his intimate friends knew that his brains were "of the most mediocre character".What, then, was the secret of his success？ He stated that it was owing to what he called living in "day-tight compartments." What did he mean by that？ A few months before he spoke at Yale, Sir William Osler had crossed the Atlantic on a great ocean liner where the captain standing on the bridge, could press a button and —— presto！ —— there was a clanging of machinery and various parts of the ship were immediately shut off from one another —— shut off into watertight compartments. "Now each one of you," Dr. Osler said to those Yale students, "is a much more marvelous organization than the great liner, and bound on a longer voyage. What I urge is that you so learn to control the machinery as to live with 'day-tight compartments' as the most certain way to ensure safety on the voyage. Get on the bridge, and see that at least the great bulkheads are in working order. Touch a button and hear, at every level of your life, the iron doors shutting out the Past —— the dead yesterdays. Touch another and shut off, with a metal curtain, the Future —— the unborn tomorrows. Then you are safe —— safe for today！... Shut off the past！ Let the dead past bury its dead  Shut out the yesterdays which have lighted fools the way to dusty death  The load of tomorrow, added to that of yesterday, carried today, makes the strongest falter. Shut off the future as tightly as the past  The future is today  There is no tomorrow. The day of man's salvation is now.

前言

In 1909, I was one of the unhappiest lads in New York. I was selling motor-trucks for a living. I didn't know what made a motor-truck run. That wasn't all: I didn't want to know. I despised my job. I despised living in a cheap furnished room on West Fifty-sixth Street —— a room infested with cockroaches. I still remember that I had a bunch of neckties hanging on the walls; and when I reached out of a morning to get a fresh necktie, the cockroaches scattered in all directions. I despised having to eat in cheap, dirty restaurants that were also probably infested with cockroaches.I came home to my lonely room each night with a sick headache - a headache bred and fed by disappointment, worry, bitterness, and rebellion. I was rebelling because the dreams I had nourished back in my college days had turned into nightmares. Was this life？ Was this the vital adventure to which I had looked forward so eagerly？ Was this all life would ever mean to me —— working at a job I despised, living with cockroaches, eating vile food —— and with no hope for the future？... I longed for leisure to read, and to write the books I had dreamed of writing back in my college days.I knew I had everything to gain and nothing to lose by giving up the job I despised. I wasn't interested in making a lot of money, but I was interested in making a lot of living. In short, I had come to the Rubicon —— to that moment of decision which faces most young people when they start out in life.

内容概要

戴尔·卡耐基，美国“成人教育之父”。20世纪早期，美国经济陷入萧条，战争和贫困导致人们失去了对美好生活的愿望，而卡耐基独辟蹊径地开创了一套融演讲、推销、为人处世、智能开发于一体的教育方式，他运用社会学和心理学知识，对人性进行了深刻的探讨和分析。他讲述的许多普通人通过奋斗获得成功的真实故事，激励了无数陷入迷茫和困境的人，帮助他们重新找到了自己的人生。



    接受卡耐基教育的有社会各界人士，其中不乏军政要员，甚至包括几位美国总统。千千万万的人从卡耐基的教育中获益匪浅。



    卡耐基在实践的基础上撰写而成的著作，是20世纪最畅销的成功励志经典。他的主要代表作有《人性的弱点》、《人性的优点》、《语言的突破》、《人性的弱点全集》。这些书出版后，立即风靡全世界，先后被翻译成几十种文字，被誉为“人类出版史上的奇迹”，无数读者由此走上了成功之路。

书籍目录

Sixteen Ways in Which This Book Will Help YouPrefaceHow This Book Was Written-and WhyPart One / Fundamental Facts You Should Know about WorryChapter 1 Live in "Day-tight Compartments"Chapter 2 A Magic Formula for Solving Worry SituationsChapter 3 What Worry May Do to YouPart Two / Basic Techniques in Analysing WorryChapter 4 How to Analyse and Solve Worry ProblemsChapter 5 How to Eliminate Fifty Per Cent of Your Business WorriesPart Three / How to Break the Worry Habit Before It Breaks YouChapter 6 How to Crowd Worry Out of Your MindChapter 7 Don't Let the Beetles Get You DownChapter 8 A Law That Will Outlaw Many of Your WorriesChapter 9 Co-operate with the InevitableChapter 10 Put a "Stop-Loss" Order on Your WorriesChapter 11 Don't Try to Saw SawdustPart Four / Seven Ways to Cultivate A Mental Attitude That Will Bring You Peace and HappinessChapter 12 Eight Words That Can Transform Your LifeChapter 13 The High Cost of Getting EvenChapter 14 If You Do This, You Will Never Worry about IngratitudeChapter 15 Would You Take a Million Dollars for What You Have?Chapter 16 Find Yourself and Be Yourself: Remember There Is No One Else on Earth like YouChapter 17 If You Have a Lemon, Make a LemonadeChapter 18 How to Cure Melancholy in Fourteen DaysPart Five / How to Keep from Worrying about CriticismChapter 19 Remember that No One Ever Kicks a Dead DogChapter 20 Do This —— and Criticism Can't Hurt YouChapter 21 Fool Things I Have DonePart Six/Six Ways to Prevent Fatigue and Worry and Keep Your Energy and Spirits HighChapter 22 How to Add One Hour a Day to Your Waking LifeChapter 23 What Makes You Tired —— and What You Can Do about ItChapter 24 How the Housewife Can Avoid Fatigue —— and Keep Looking YoungChapter 25 Four Good Working Habits That Will Help Prevent Fatigue and WorryChapter 26 How to Banish the Boredom That Produces Fatigue, Worry, and ResentmentChapter 27 How to Keep from Worrying about InsomniaPart Seven / How to Find the Kind of Work in Which You May Be Happy and SuccessfulChapter 28 The Major Decision of Your LifePart Eight / How to Lessen Your Financial WorriesChapter 29 "Seventy Per Cent of All Our Worries..."Part Nine / "How I Conquered Worry" —— 32 True Stories1. Six Major Troubles Hit Me All at Once2. I Can Turn Myself into a Shouting Optimist within an Hour3. How I Got Rid of an Inferiority Complex4. I Lived in the Garden of Allah5. Five Methods I Use to Banish Worry6. I Stood Yesterday. I Can Stand Today7. Did Not Expect to Live to See the Dawn8. Go to the Gym to Punch the Bag or Take a Hike Outdoors9. Was "The Worrying Wreck from Virginia Tech"10. Have Lived by This Sentence11. Hit Bottom and Survived12. Used to Be One of the World's Biggest Jackasses13. Have Always Tried to Keep My Line of Supplies Open14. I Heard a Voice in India15. When the Sheriff Came in My Front Door16. The Toughest Opponent I Ever Fought Was Worry17. I Prayed to God to Keep Me Out of an Orphans' Home18. I Was Acting like a Hysterical Woman19. I Learned to Stop Worrying by Watching My Wife Wash Dishes20. I Found the Answer—— Keep Busy!21. Time Solves a Lot of Things22. I Was Warned Not to Try to Speak or to Move Even a Finger23. I Am a Great Dismisser24. If l Had Not Stopped Worrying, I Would Have Been in My Grave Long Ago25. One at a Time Gentleman, One at a Time26. I Now Look for the Green Light27. How John D. Rockefeller Lived on Borrowed Time for Forty-five Years28. Reading a Book on Sex Prevented My Marriage from Going on the Rocks29. I Was Committing Slow Suicide Because I Didn't Know How to Relax30. A Real Miracle Happened to Me31. Setbacks32. I Was So Worried I Didn't Eat a Bite of Solid Food for Eighteen Days

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作者简介

《人性的优点》告诉你如何摆脱忧虑，重新扬起生活风帆的书。《人性的优点》字里行间洋溢着作者积极向上、笑面困境的乐观态度，汇集了卡耐基的智慧精华和最激励人心的内容，是卡耐基最成功的励志经典之一。它通过分析许多跟你我一样的普通人面临忧虑时如何走出困境的真实案例，让你明白如何化解人际危机、缓解精神紧张、避免情绪低落，从而摆脱忧虑困扰，最终走出人生的泥淖，重新步人幸福快乐的人生轨道。

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