The Secret of Success: How to Achieve Power, Success & Mental Influence
Practical Lessons in Willpower, Concentration, Self-Confidence, and Directed ThoughtBy William Walker Atkinson
Length23h 55m
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In *The Secret of Success: How to Achieve Power, Success & Mental Influence*, William Walker Atkinson presents a practical synthesis of New Thought psychology, self-help instruction, and popular metaphysical philosophy. The book treats success less as an accident of circumstance than as the consequence of disciplined attention, purposeful thought, confidence, and the intelligent direction of personal energy. Its rhetoric is direct, aphoristic, and motivational, combining moral counsel with exercises intended to cultivate concentration, will, self-command, and persuasive influence. Situated within the early twentieth-century literature of mind-cure and personal development, it reflects the period's conviction that consciousness could be trained and that inner reform might generate outward achievement. Atkinson (1862–1932) was a prolific American author, lawyer, businessman, and leading popularizer of New Thought ideas. His varied professional experiences, together with his interest in mental science, occult philosophy, and practical psychology, informed his emphasis on applied rather than merely theoretical wisdom. Writing under his own name and several pseudonyms, he helped shape the accessible, instructional style that became characteristic of modern success literature. This book is especially valuable for readers interested in the intellectual history of self-help, the origins of motivational psychology, or the cultural ideals of individual advancement. It can be read both as a period document and as a concise manual of mental discipline, inviting reflection on the enduring appeal—and the limitations—of attributing success to the trained mind.
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GenreSelf-Help
Length23 hrs 55 mins
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Publish dateDec 22, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Secret of Success: How to Achieve Power, Success & Mental Influence
2The Secret of Success
3The Individual
4Spiritedness
5Latent Powers
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6Soul-Force
7The Power of Desire
8The Law of Attraction
9Personal Magnetism
10Attractive Personality
11An Afterword
12Preface
13Salutatory
14The Nature of the Force
15How the Thought Force Can Aid You
16Direct Psychic Influence
17A Little Wordly Wisdom
18The Power of the Eye
19The Magnetic Gaze
20The Volic Force
21Direct Volation
22Telephatic Volation
23The Adductive Quality of Thought
24Character Building By Mental Control
25The Art of Concentering
26The Practice of Concentering
27Valedictory
28Part I. Suggestion.
29Chapter I. What is Suggestion?
30Chapter II. Suggestion of Authority.
31Chapter III. Suggestion of Habit and Repetition.
32Chapter IV. Suggestion of Imitation.
33Chapter V. Instances of Suggestion.
34Chapter VI. Suggestion in Business.
35Chapter VII. Suggestion and Character.
36Chapter VIII. Suggestion in Childhood.
37Part II. Therapeutic Suggestion.
38Chapter IX. Suggestion and Health.
39Chapter X. Masked Suggestion.
40Chapter XI. Suggestive Therapeutics
41Chapter XII. Mental Cause and Cure.
42Chapter XIII. Therapeutic Suggestion.
43Chapter XIV. Suggestive Treatments.
44Chapter XV. "The New Method."
45Part III. Auto-Suggestion
46Chapter XVI. Auto-Suggestion.
47Chapter XVII. Self-Impression.
48Chapter XVIII. Auto-Suggestive Methods.
49Chapter XIX. Character Building.
50Chapter XX. Health, Happiness and Prosperity.
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