How to Attract Success & Fortune: 30 Books from the Masters of Self-mastery
Thirty Classic Works on Wealth, Self-Mastery, Persuasion, and Practical WisdomBy P. T. Barnum, Benjamin Franklin, Wallace D. Wattles, William Walker Atkinson, Orison Swett Marden, James Allen, Russell Conwell, Henry Harrison Brown, Thorstein Veblen, Émile Coué, Kahlil Gibran, Marcus Aurelius, Niccolò Machiavelli, Lao Tzu
Length104h 39m
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How to Attract Success & Fortune assembles thirty works of self-culture, practical philosophy, economic critique, and popular instruction into a capacious genealogy of achievement. Its contents range from aphoristic meditations and strategic counsels to motivational essays, entrepreneurial narratives, and theories of mind, habit, and prosperity. Classical wisdom, modern self-help, and skeptical accounts of status and consumption meet here, making the volume more than a simple handbook: it is a record of changing ideas about ambition, discipline, wealth, and the good life. The contributors span ancient Chinese, Greco-Roman, Renaissance Italian, Enlightenment American, and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Anglo-American and French traditions. Public lecturers, reform-minded writers, philosophers, businessmen, and literary moralists bring distinct assumptions about agency and fortune. Barnum's promotional modernity, Franklin's civic pragmatism, New Thought's mental disciplines, Veblen's critique of conspicuous consumption, and the spiritual-humanist perspectives represented in the collection create a productive tension between material acquisition and ethical self-command. This volume is recommended for readers seeking a broad intellectual history of success literature rather than a single formula for prosperity. Its juxtaposed voices invite comparison across cultures and centuries, offering educational insight into the promises, contradictions, and enduring appeal of self-mastery. Readers will find an unusually rich dialogue between practical counsel, philosophical reflection, and social criticism.
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GenreSelf-Help, Literary Classics
Length104 hrs 39 mins
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Publish dateJun 10, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Achieving Prosperity - Ultimate Collection
2Wallace D. Wattles
3Preface
4Chapter 1: The Right To Be Rich
5Chapter 2: There is A Science of Getting Rich
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6Chapter 3: Is Opportunity Monopolized?
7Chapter 4: The First Principle in The Science of Getting Rich
8Chapter 5: Increasing Life
9Chapter 6: How Riches Come to You
10Chapter 7: Gratitude
11Chapter 8: Thinking in the Certain Way
12Chapter 9: How to Use the Will
13Chapter 10: Further Use of the Will
14Chapter 11: Acting in the Certain Way
15Chapter 12: Efficient Action
16Chapter 13: Getting into the Right Business
17Chapter 14: The Impression of Increase
18Chapter 15: The Advancing Man
19Chapter 16: Some Cautions, and Concluding Observations
20Chapter 17: Summary of the Science of Getting Rich
21Preface
22Chapter I. The Principle of Health
23Chapter II. The Foundations of Faith
24Chapter III. Life and Its Organisms
25Chapter IV. What to Think
26Chapter V. Faith
27Chapter VI. Use of the Will
28Chapter VII. Health from God
29Chapter VIII. Summary of the Mental Actions
30Chapter IX. When to Eat
31Chapter X. What To Eat
32Chapter XI. How to Eat
33Chapter XII. Hunger and Appetites
34Chapter XIII. In a Nutshell
35Chapter XIV. Breathing
36Chapter XV. Sleep
37Chapter XVI. Supplementary Instructions
38Chapter XVII. A Summary of the Science Of Being Well
39How to Get What You Want
40Chapter 1
41Chapter 2
42Chapter 3
43Chapter 4
44Chapter 5
45William Walker Atkinson
46The Secret of Success
47The Individual
48Spiritedness
49Latent Powers
50Soul-Force
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