How to Stop Worrying and Start Living Book written by Dale Carnegie described himself as a "simple country boy" from Missouri but was also a pioneer of the self-improvement genre.
About this Book - Buy Book - Click Here - In the spring of 1871, a young man picked up a book and read twenty-one words that had a profound effect on his future. A medical student at the Montreal General Hospital, he was worried about passing the final examination, worried about what to do, where to go, how to build up a practice, how to make a living. Download full PDF - Click Here
'The twenty-One words that this young medical student read in 1871 helped him to become the most famous physician of his generation. He organized the world-famous Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He became Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford -- the highest honor that can be bestowed upon any medical man in the British Empire. He was knighted by the King of England . When he died, two huge volumes containing 1466 pages were required to tell the story of his life.
His name was Sir William Osler. Here are the twenty-One words that he read in the spring of 1871-twenty-One words from Thomas Carlyle that helped him lead a life free from worry: "Our main business is not to set what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand ."
Forty-two years later, on a soft spring night when the tulips were blooming on the campus , this man, Sir William Osler, addressed the students of Yale University. He told those Yale students that a man like himself who had been a professor in four universities and had written a popular book was supposed to have "brains of a special quality."
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