Success In A New Era
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- Title
- Success In A New Era
- Publication year listed
- 1919
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- Public domain eBook
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About this book
Success In A New Era
Author: Walsh, James J. (James Joseph), 1865-1942
Year: 1919
CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 THE SECRET OF SUCCESS What the war showed in human endurance - Why many men fail - Hidden energies - The mind and the will - Power of will - Age no barrier to success - Reconstruction and opportunity - The chief factor in success. CHAPTER 2 MORALE Meaning of morale - Its application in war - Keynote of Napoleon's success - Foch and morale - Faith in oneself - When morale is lacking - What personal confidence accomplishes - "I will try" and "I will do." CHAPTER 3 THE POWERS OF MEN Exercising the will power - Doing more than we do - Knowledge futile without action - Aristotle's appreciaton of the will - Freedom of the will - The great lesson of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" - The handicap of too much thinking - Living below our maximum - The deeper layers of energy - Extent of mental and physical powers. CHAPTER 4 WORK Converting energy into action - The greatest essential in progress - The power to work - Work and the will - The question of genius - The happiness of fruitful work - Work and health - Cardinal Mercier's definition of success - Learning to do difficult things - Good and bad environment - The fiction about overwork - What Gladstone accomplished - Typical exa