
The Mastery of Success
Classic Wisdom on Ambition, Wealth, Self-Mastery, Character, and the Art of Purposeful LivingDe Wallace D. Wattles, William Walker Atkinson, P. T. Barnum, Benjamin Franklin, Orison Swett Marden, James Allen, Russell Conwell, Henry Harrison Brown, Thorstein Veblen, Émile Coué, Kahlil Gibran, Marcus Aurelius, Niccolò Machiavelli, Lao Tzu, B. F. Austin, Charles F. Haanel, Robert Collier, Elbert Hubbard, William Crosbie Hunter, Harry A. Lewis, Florence Scovel Shinn, Napoleon Hill, George Matthew Adams, Genevieve Behrend, Elizabeth Towne, Ralph Waldo Trine, Charles Fillmore, George S. ClasonDuração193h 48m
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The Mastery of Success gathers foundational writings on ambition, prosperity, self-command, and purposeful living into a capacious genealogy of modern self-help. Its selections range from aphoristic wisdom and philosophical meditation to entrepreneurial counsel, motivational essays, metaphysical instruction, and practical financial maxims. Classical reflections on virtue and strategy sit beside influential accounts of visualization, disciplined thought, and economic initiative, revealing both the breadth and tensions of the success tradition. The volume brings together public intellectuals, business writers, New Thought teachers, moral philosophers, and cultural critics whose work shaped Anglo-American ideas of individual advancement. Voices associated with Transcendentalism, positive-thinking movements, early twentieth-century motivational literature, Stoicism, and Taoist philosophy create a transhistorical conversation. Figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Marcus Aurelius, Lao Tzu, Kahlil Gibran, Thorstein Veblen, and Napoleon Hill illuminate divergent assumptions about wealth, character, social status, inner peace, and power. Recommended for students of popular philosophy, intellectual history, and personal development, this anthology offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare competing definitions of success within one volume. Readers will find practical encouragement, ethical provocation, and cultural critique, while the juxtaposition of styles invites sustained reflection on whether mastery concerns achievement, freedom, service, or self-knowledge.
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GêneroSelf-Help, Literary Classics
Duração193 h 48 min
Narrado porOuça com mais de 1.000 vozes
FormatoeBook com áudio
Data de publicação16 de jul. de 2021
IdiomaInglês
Sumário
1The Aeneid (Annotated)
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
39Chapter 1
40Chapter 2
41Chapter 3
42Chapter 4
43Chapter 5
44William Walker Atkinson
45The Secret of Success
46The Individual
47Spiritedness
48Latent Powers
49Soul-Force
50The Power of Desire