How to Succeed (Boxed-Set)
Classic Writings on Ambition, Self-Mastery, Prosperity, and the Disciplined Pursuit of a Meaningful LifeBy Niccolò Machiavelli, Elizabeth Towne, Elbert Hubbard, James Allen, William Walker Atkinson, Orison Swett Marden, Ralph Waldo Trine, Benjamin Franklin, William Crosbie Hunter, Harry A. Lewis, Thorstein Veblen, Kahlil Gibran, P. T. Barnum, Marcus Aurelius, Wallace D. Wattles, Lao Tzu, Russell Conwell, Henry Harrison Brown, Florence Scovel Shinn, Napoleon Hill, Émile Coué, Charles F. Haanel, B. F. Austin, Robert Collier, George Matthew Adams, Genevieve Behrend
Length168h 17m
About this audiobook
How to Succeed (Boxed-Set) assembles a capacious library of advice literature, joining political realism, Stoic reflection, New Thought metaphysics, business instruction, moral self-culture, and entrepreneurial rhetoric. Its range extends from aphoristic meditations and philosophical dialogues to practical manuals, sermons, essays, and motivational treatises. Read together, these texts illuminate the shifting meanings of "success": prudence, wealth, discipline, influence, spiritual composure, imagination, and service. Standout strands include classical reflections on self-mastery, sharply skeptical analyses of status and consumption, and influential formulations of confidence and purposeful action. The contributors form an unusually broad transhistorical conversation, bringing ancient Chinese and Roman philosophy into contact with American republican wisdom, Gilded Age commercial culture, and the nineteenth- and twentieth-century self-help movement. Writers associated with Transcendentalist spirituality, New Thought, positive-thinking pedagogy, industrial ambition, and social critique complicate any single definition of achievement. Their differing social positions and intellectual commitments reveal both the promises and tensions of individualist success narratives. This boxed set is recommended for readers seeking a concentrated education in the genealogy of self-improvement literature. Its many voices invite comparison rather than passive acceptance, fostering critical dialogue about ambition, character, power, prosperity, and the cultural assumptions that shape personal aspiration.
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Rating★★★★ 4.4 (10)
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GenreSelf-Help, Literary Classics
Length168 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 11, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1How to Succeed (Boxed-Set)
2Preface
3Chapter 1: The Right To Be Rich
4Chapter 2: There is A Science of Getting Rich
5Chapter 3: Is Opportunity Monopolized?
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6Chapter 4: The First Principle in The Science of Getting Rich
7Chapter 5: Increasing Life
8Chapter 6: How Riches Come to You
9Chapter 7: Gratitude
10Chapter 8: Thinking in the Certain Way
11Chapter 9: How to Use the Will
12Chapter 10: Further Use of the Will
13Chapter 11: Acting in the Certain Way
14Chapter 12: Efficient Action
15Chapter 13: Getting into the Right Business
16Chapter 14: The Impression of Increase
17Chapter 15: The Advancing Man
18Chapter 16: Some Cautions, and Concluding Observations
19Preface
20Chapter I. The Principle of Health
21Chapter II. The Foundations of Faith
22Chapter III. Life and Its Organisms
23Chapter IV. What to Think
24Chapter V. Faith
25Chapter VI. Use of the Will
26Chapter VII. Health from God
27Chapter VIII. Summary of the Mental Actions
28Chapter IX. When to Eat
29Chapter X. What To Eat
30Chapter XI. How to Eat
31Chapter XII. Hunger and Appetites
32Chapter XIII. In a Nutshell
33Chapter XIV. Breathing
34Chapter XV. Sleep
35Chapter XVI. Supplementary Instructions
36Chapter XVII. A Summary of the Science Of Being Well
37Chapter 1
38Chapter 2
39Chapter 3
40Chapter 4
41Chapter 5
42William Walker Atkinson
43The Secret of Success
44The Individual
45Spiritedness
46Latent Powers
47Soul-Force
48The Power of Desire
49The Law of Attraction
50Personal Magnetism
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