《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。
In 1909， I was one of the unhappiest lads in New York. I was selling motor-trucks for a living. I didnt know what made a motor-truck run. That wasnt all： I didnt 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 wasnt 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.
戴尔·卡耐基（1888-1955），美国著名的人际关系学大师，西方现代人际关系教育的奠基人。他于1912年创立卡耐基人际关系训练班，教授人们人际沟通及处理压力的技巧。卡耐基勤f著述，他所著的《人性的弱点》、《人性的优点》、《语言的突破》等成为多年来畅销不衰的成功学、人际关系学经典著作，风靡全球，并被翻译成几十种文字，被誉为“人类出版史上的奇迹”。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，帮助他们改写了自己的人生。
Part One / Fundamental Facts You Should Know about Worry
Chapter 1 Live in \"Day-tight Compartments\"
Chapter 2 A Magic Formula for Solving Worry Situations
Chapter 3 What Worry May Do to You
Part Two / Basic Techniques in Analysing Worry
Chapter 4 How to Analyse and Solve Worry Problems
Chapter 5 How to Eliminate Fifty Per Cent of Your Business Worries
Part Three / How to Break the Worry Habit Before It Breaks You
Chapter 6 How to Crowd Worry Out of Your Mind
Chapter 7 Dont Let the Beetles Get You Down
Chapter 8 A Law That Will Outlaw Many of Your Worries
Chapter 9 Co-operate with the Inevitable
Chapter 10 Put a \"Stop-Loss\" Order on Your Worries
Chapter 11 Dont Try to Saw Sawdust
Part Four / Seven Ways to Cultivate A Mental Attitude That Will Bring You Peace and Happiness
Chapter 12 Eight Words That Can Transform Your Life
Chapter 13 The High Cost of Getting Even
Chapter 14 If You Do This, You Will Never Worry about Ingratitude
Chapter 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 You
Chapter 17 If You Have a Lemon, Make a Lemonade
Chapter 18 How to Cure Melancholy in Fourteen Days
Part Five / How to Keep from Worrying about Criticism
Chapter 19 Remember that No One Ever Kicks a Dead Dog
Chapter 20 Do This —— and Criticism Cant Hurt You
Chapter 21 Fool Things I Have Done
Part Six/Six Ways to Prevent Fatigue and Worry and Keep Your Energy and Spirits High
Chapter 22 How to Add One Hour a Day to Your Waking Life
Chapter 23 What Makes You Tired —— and What You Can Do about It
Chapter 24 How the Housewife Can Avoid Fatigue —— and Keep Looking Young
Chapter 25 Four Good Working Habits That Will Help Prevent Fatigue and Worry
Chapter 26 How to Banish the Boredom That Produces Fatigue, Worry, and Resentment
Chapter 27 How to Keep from Worrying about Insomnia
Part Seven / How to Find the Kind of Work in Which You May Be Happy and Successful
Chapter 28 The Major Decision of Your Life
Part Eight / How to Lessen Your Financial Worries
Chapter 29 \"Seventy Per Cent of All Our Worries...\"
Part Nine / \"How I Conquered Worry\" —— 32 True Stories
1. Six Major Troubles Hit Me All at Once
2. I Can Turn Myself into a Shouting Optimist within an Hour
3. How I Got Rid of an Inferiority Complex
4. I Lived in the Garden of Allah
5. Five Methods I Use to Banish Worry
6. I Stood Yesterday. I Can Stand Today
7. Did Not Expect to Live to See the Dawn
8. Go to the Gym to Punch the Bag or Take a Hike Outdoors
9. Was \"The Worrying Wreck from Virginia Tech\"
10. Have Lived by This Sentence
11. Hit Bottom and Survived
12. Used to Be One of the Worlds Biggest Jackasses
13. Have Always Tried to Keep My Line of Supplies Open
14. I Heard a Voice in India
15. When the Sheriff Came in My Front Door
16. The Toughest Opponent I Ever Fought Was Worry
17. I Prayed to God to Keep Me Out of an Orphans Home
18. I Was Acting like a Hysterical Woman
19. I Learned to Stop Worrying by Watching My Wife Wash Dishes
20. I Found the Answer—— Keep Busy！
21. Time Solves a Lot of Things
22. I Was Warned Not to Try to Speak or to Move Even a Finger
23. I Am a Great Dismisser
24. If l Had Not Stopped Worrying, I Would Have Been in My Grave Long Ago
25. One at a Time Gentleman, One at a Time
26. I Now Look for the Green Light
27. How John D. Rockefeller Lived on Borrowed Time for Forty-five Years
28. Reading a Book on Sex Prevented My Marriage from Going on the Rocks
29. I Was Committing Slow Suicide Because I Didnt Know How to Relax
30. A Real Miracle Happened to Me
31. Setbacks
32. I Was So Worried I Didnt Eat a Bite of Solid Food for Eighteen Days
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