{"id":36357,"date":"2020-06-09T12:51:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T19:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=36357"},"modified":"2020-06-09T12:51:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T19:51:20","slug":"book-freak-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/book-freak-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Freak #43: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Book Freak is a weekly newsletter with short pieces of advice from books. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/bookfreak\/\">Subscribe here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Self-improvement expert Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) is most famous as the author of his 1936 bestseller,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/howtowinfriendsand\" target=\"_blank\"><em>How to Win Friends and Influence People<\/em><\/a>. In this issue of Book Freak, four pieces of advice from his 1948 book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/howtostopworryingand\" target=\"_blank\"><em>How to Stop Worrying and Start Living<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prepare for the future by doing your best today<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThe best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today\u2019s work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please yourself by pleasing others<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cA good deed,&#8221; said the prophet Mohammed, &#8220;is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another.\u201d Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Be your own harshest critic<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cLet\u2019s find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. When Charles Darwin completed the manuscript of his immortal book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/2009\">The Origin Of Species<\/a><\/em> he realized that the publication of his revolutionary concept of creation would rock the intellectual and religious worlds. So he became his own critic and spent another 15 years checking his data, challenging his reasoning, and criticizing his conclusions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t worry about what others think of you, because they don&#8217;t care about you<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cPeople are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves\u2014before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/bookfreak\/\">Book Freak<\/a> is one of our five newsletters from Cool Tools Lab (our other\u00a0four are the <a href=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/subscribe-to-email-list\/\">Cool Tools Newsletter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recomendo.com\/\">Recomendo<\/a>, <a href=\"Gareth\u2019s%20Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales\">Gareth\u2019s Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em><em>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/wimb\/\">What&#8217;s in my bag?<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short pieces of advice from books<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36365,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36357\/revisions\/36365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}