How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
"Our thoughts make us what we are."
— Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948)
Introduction
| How to Stop Worrying and Start Living | |
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| Full title | How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry |
| Author | Dale Carnegie |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Worry; Stress management; Personal development |
| Genre | Nonfiction; Self-help |
| Publisher | Gallery Books |
Publication date | 5 October 2004 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover, paperback); e-book; audiobook |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 978-0-671-03597-6 |
| Goodreads rating | 4.2/5 (as of 27 October 2025) |
| Website | simonandschuster.com |
- How to Stop Worrying and Start Living** is a self-help book by American writer Dale Carnegie. It was first published in the United States by Simon & Schuster in 1948.[1] A UK edition appeared the same year via The World’s Work (London).[2] The book remains in print through Simon & Schuster imprints; the Gallery Books trade paperback (5 October 2004) runs 320 pages (ISBN 978-0-671-03597-6).[3] The publisher describes it as a practical, time-tested manual for reducing worry—language also used for later digital and audio editions.[4]
Chapter summary
This outline follows the Gallery Books trade paperback edition (5 October 2004; ISBN 978-0-671-03597-6).[3]
I – Fundamental Facts You Should Know About Worry
📦 1 – Live in "Day-tight Compartments".
🪄 2 – A Magic Formula for Solving Worry Situations.
⚠️ 3 – What Worry May Do to You.
II – Basic Techniques in Analyzing Worry
🔍 4 – How to Analyze and Solve Worry Problems.
📊 5 – How to Eliminate Fifty Per Cent of Your Business Worries.
III – How to Break the Worry Habit Before it Breaks You
🧠 6 – How to Crowd Worry Out of Your Mind.
🪲 7 – Don't Let the Beetles Get You Down.
⚖️ 8 – A Law That Will Outlaw Many of Your Worries.
🤝 9 – Co-operate with the Inevitable.
⛔ 10 – Put a "Stop-Loss" Order on Your Worries.
🪚 11 – Don't Try to Saw Sawdust.
IV – Seven Ways to Cultivate A Mental Attitude That Will Bring You Peace and Happiness
🗣️ 12 – Eight Words That Can Transform Your Life.
💸 13 – The High Cost of Getting Even.
💌 14 – If You Do This, You Will Never Worry About Ingratitude.
💎 15 – Would You Take a Million Dollars for What You Have?.
🪞 16 – Find Yourself and Be Yourself: Remember There Is No One Else on Earth Like You.
🍋 17 – If You Have a Lemon, Make a Lemonade.
🌤️ 18 – How to Cure Depression in Fourteen Days.
V – The Perfect Way to Conquer Worry
👪 19 – How My Mother and Father Conquered Worry.
VI – How to Keep From Worrying about Criticism
🐕 20 – Remember That No One Ever Kicks a Dead Dog.
🛡️ 21 – Do This--and Criticism Can't Hurt You.
🤦 22 – Fool Things I Have Done.
VII – Six Ways to Prevent Fatigue and Worry and Keep Your Energy and Spirits High
⏰ 23 – How to Add One Hour a Day to Your Waking Life.
😴 24 – What Makes You Tired--and What You Can Do About It.
🧖 25 – How to Avoid Fatigue--and Keep Looking Young!.
🧰 26 – Four Good Working Habits That Will Help Prevent Fatigue and Worry.
🎯 27 – How to Banish the Boredom That Produces Fatigue, Worry, and Resentment.
🌙 28 – How to Keep from Worrying About Insomnia.
VIII – "How I Conquered Worry"
💥 29 – Six Major Troubles Hit Me All at Once.
📣 30 – I Can Turn Myself into a Shouting Optimist Within an Hour.
🧍♂️ 31 – How I Got Rid of an Inferiority Complex.
🏝️ 32 – I Lived in the Garden of Allah.
🧹 33 – Five Methods I Have Used to Banish Worry.
🧗 34 – I Stood Yesterday. I Can Stand Today.
🌅 35 – I Did Not Expect to Live to See the Dawn.
🥊 36 – I Go to the Gym to Punch the Bag or Take a Hike Outdoors.
🎓 37 – I Was "The Worrying Wreck from Virginia Tech".
📝 38 – I Have Lived by This Sentence.
📈 39 – I Hit Bottom and Survived.
🙈 40 – I Used to Be One of the World's Biggest Jackasses.
🔗 41 – I Have Always Tried to Keep My Line of Supplies Open.
🪔 42 – I Heard a Voice in India.
🚪 43 – When the Sheriff Came in My Front Door.
⚔️ 44 – The Toughest Opponent I Ever Fought Was Worry.
🙏 45 – I Prayed to God to Keep Me Out of an Orphans' Home.
🌪️ 46 – My Stomach Was Twisting Like a Kansas Whirlwind.
🍽️ 47 – I Learned to Stop Worrying by Watching My Wife Wash Dishes.
🧩 48 – I Found the Answer.
⌛ 49 – Time Solves a Lot of Things!.
🚫 50 – I Was Warned Not to Try to Speak or to Move Even a Finger.
🧽 51 – I Am a Great Dismisser.
❤️🩹 52 – If I Had Not Stopped Worrying, I Would Have Been in My Grave Long Ago.
🩺 53 – I Got Rid of Stomach Ulcers and Worry by Changing My Job and My Mental Attitude.
🚦 54 – I Now Look for the Green Light.
⏳ 55 – How John D. Rockefeller Lived on Borrowed Time for Forty-five Years.
😵💫 56 – I Was Committing Slow Suicide Because I Didn't Know How to Relax.
✨ 57 – A Real Miracle Happened to Me.
🪙 58 – How Benjamin Franklin Conquered Worry.
🥣 59 – I Was So Worried I Didn't Eat a Bite of Solid Food for Eighteen Days.
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References
- ↑ "How to stop worrying and start living (1948)". Colorado Mountain College (Marmot) Library Catalog. Marmot Library Network. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
- ↑ "How to stop worrying and start living / by Dale Carnegie". National Library of Australia catalogue. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (Trade Paperback)". Simon & Schuster. Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
- ↑ "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (eBook)". Simon & Schuster. Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 27 October 2025.