Success in a new era
By: by James J. Walsh.
Publisher: Franklin-Webb company
Published: 1919
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Success
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: CHAPTER 1; title: THE SECRET OF SUCCESS; title: What the war showed in human endurance - Why many men fail - Hidden energies - The mind and the will - Power of will - Age no barrier to success - Reconstruction and opportunity - The chief factor in success.; title: CHAPTER 2; title: MORALE; title: Meaning of morale - Its application in war - Keynote of Napoleon's success - Foch and morale - Faith in oneself - When morale is lacking - What personal confidence accomplishes - "I will try" and "I will do."; title: CHAPTER 3; title: THE POWERS OF MEN; title: Exercising the will power - Doing more than we do - Knowledge futile without action - Aristotle's appreciaton of the will - Freedom of the will - The great lesson of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" - The handicap of too much thinking - Living below our maximum - The deeper layers of energy - Extent of mental and physical powers.; title: CHAPTER 4; title: WORK; title: Converting energy into action - The greatest essential in progress - The power to work - Work and the will - The question of genius - The happiness of fruitful work - Work and health - Cardinal Mercier's definition of success - Learning to do difficult things - Good and bad environment - The fiction about overwork - What Gladstone accomplished - Typical examples of hard workers - The habit of work.; title: CHAPTER 5; title: RECREATION OF KIND; title: Great importance of recreation as a factor in success - Recreation as a test of character - The best kind of recreation - Recreation that does not re-create - Regarding hobbies - The use of different parts of the mind - Reading as a recreation - Games - Helping others - Study as a recreation.; title: CHAPTER 6; title: RECREATION OF BODY; title: Urgent necessity of physical exercise - Daily exercise out of doors - Value of walking - Exercise and long life - Fresh air and mental and physical accomplishment - Indoor exercises - Harmful pleasures - Amusements that pull down - The theory of rest; title: CHAPTER 7; title: FEAR THOUGHTS; title: Dreads that deplete energy - Unreasonable fears of consequences - Disposition the origin - Lesser degrees of dread that hamper humanity - Nutrition and fear - Complacent ideas of nervous exhaustion - Formation of opposing habits - Self-drugging through medicines.; title: CHAPTER 8; title: GOOD AND BAD HABITS; title: Education is habit formation - The fresh air question - The menace of uninterrupted routine - Pessimism, the destroyer of hope - Pluck and personality - Habits that kill initiative - Recuperative powers of proper diversion - The easy road to good habits - Proper use of time - Sensible diet and exercise.; title: CHAPTER 9; title: STUMBLING BLOCKS MADE STEPPING STONES; title: Health and success - Physical handicaps no drawback to accomplishment - Wonderful work of a bedridden woman - Ills of mankind as steadiers - Deformities that have proved advantageous - Good example of real sufferers from physical ills - The achievement of Demosthenes - What will power will do.; title: CHAPTER 10; title: ATTENTION TO THE JOB IN HAND; title: Doing a job well - Education from the daily task - Possibilities of faithful attention to duties - Important discoveries of thoughtful men - Ordinary things, well done, as stepping stones to greater things - Michel Angelo's secret of success - How Booker T. Washington got his education - The philosophy of doing little things well.; title: CHAPTER 11; title: CONCENTRATION; title: Increasing the power of concentration - Mental application under the stress of circumstances - Avoiding distractions - Heredity and environment as applied to concentration - What practice will do - Developing the power of mental control - Training the will to master difficult things - Lessening the power of concentration - Concentration and health.; title: CHAPTER 12; title: MEMORY; title: Value of a good memory - Not a gift of nature - Can be trained to a high degree - Results of memory exercises - All training systems based on old principles - Important elements in memory development - Surprising success from concentration and practice - "Exhibition memories" - Memory and intellect - Things not to remember - Memory and the physical makeup - Injurious memory practices - A good plan of memory training.; title: CHAPTER 13; title: WORRIES; title: Troubles that never happen - Worry that kills - Sabotage of the vital powers - Worry a habit more than a natural disposition - Wrong methods of banishing worry - A splendid remedy - Worry as viewed in later years.; title: CHAPTER 14; title: WHAT IS SUCCESS; title: The difference between desire and determination - Etymology of the word success - Money as a criterion of success - Troubles of the rich - Ptah Hotep's advice to his son - Lesson from Pasteur's career - Thoreau's contempt for wealth - Success not merely money making, but definite and worthy personal effort and accomplishment - Development of individuality the best test of real success.