SELF-MASTERY: 30 Best Books to Guide You To Your Goals
Classic Wisdom on Discipline, Ambition, Influence, Wealth, and Inner FreedomBy Niccolò Machiavelli, James Allen, William Walker Atkinson, Orison Swett Marden, Benjamin Franklin, Thorstein Veblen, Kahlil Gibran, P. T. Barnum, Marcus Aurelius, Wallace D. Wattles, Lao Tzu, Russell Conwell, Henry Harrison Brown, Émile Coué
Length104h 1m
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SELF-MASTERY: 30 Best Books to Guide You To Your Goals assembles a capacious library of discipline, ambition, ethical reflection, persuasion, prosperity, and inward composure. Its selections range from classical aphorism and philosophical meditation to political counsel, self-help instruction, business critique, inspirational prose, and principles of autosuggestion. Canonical works such as Meditations, the Tao Te Ching, and The Prince appear alongside influential manuals of practical success, making the volume a revealing record of how different eras have imagined the governed self. The contributors span ancient Stoic and Daoist traditions, Renaissance political thought, Enlightenment civic culture, nineteenth-century moral improvement, and the twentieth century's emerging psychology of confidence and habit. Statesmen, philosophers, entrepreneurs, social critics, spiritual writers, and popular lecturers bring markedly different assumptions to the question of achievement. Together, these voices place modern goal-setting in dialogue with older concerns: virtue, duty, moderation, social status, material aspiration, and the limits of individual control. This collection is especially valuable for readers seeking more than a single formula for success. It offers an educational encounter with competing styles and ideals, inviting comparison between strategic calculation, ethical self-command, positive thinking, and contemplative restraint. Readers will find in its breadth both practical stimulus and a sustained conversation about what mastery of oneself—and one's goals—might truly mean.
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GenreSelf-Help, Literary Classics
Length104 hrs 1 min
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Publish dateNov 27, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Road to 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
20Preface
21Chapter I. The Principle of Health
22Chapter II. The Foundations of Faith
23Chapter III. Life and Its Organisms
24Chapter IV. What to Think
25Chapter V. Faith
26Chapter VI. Use of the Will
27Chapter VII. Health from God
28Chapter VIII. Summary of the Mental Actions
29Chapter IX. When to Eat
30Chapter X. What To Eat
31Chapter XI. How to Eat
32Chapter XII. Hunger and Appetites
33Chapter XIII. In a Nutshell
34Chapter XIV. Breathing
35Chapter XV. Sleep
36Chapter XVI. Supplementary Instructions
37Chapter XVII. A Summary of the Science Of Being Well
38Chapter 1
39Chapter 2
40Chapter 3
41Chapter 4
42Chapter 5
43William Walker Atkinson
44The Secret of Success
45The Individual
46Spiritedness
47Latent Powers
48Soul-Force
49The Power of Desire
50The Law of Attraction
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