Wake Up and Live!

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library - available on Amazon) Chapter 6 - The System in Operation IF you are the possessor of a very vivid imagination, you will probably be already well on the way towards practice with no more than the clue in that sentence: Act as if it were impossible [...]

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library - available on Amazon) Chapter 5 - Righting the Direction In spite of the will to fail, in spite of the rewards of failure, success is the normal aim of man, his proper objective. Energy is correctly used, not by spending it to hold ourselves inactive, nor by [...]

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library - available on Amazon) Chapter 4 - The Rewards of Failure ABSURD as it may seem at first consideration that anyone would solemnly enter into even an unconscious conspiracy to fail, it is a matter of observation that there is hardly one person in a hundred who does [...]

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library - available on Amazon) Chapter 3 - Victims of The Will to Fail IF the Will to Fall announced its presence with symptoms as uniform and unmistakable as those which indicate measles or a bad cold, it would probably have been eradicated, or a technique for combating it [...]

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library - available on Amazon) Chapter 4 - The Rewards of Failure ABSURD as it may seem at first consideration that anyone would solemnly enter into even an unconscious conspiracy to fail, it is a matter of observation that there is hardly one person in a hundred who does [...]

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library - available on Amazon) Chapter 3 - Victims of The Will to Fail IF the Will to Fall announced its presence with symptoms as uniform and unmistakable as those which indicate measles or a bad cold, it would probably have been eradicated, or a technique for combating it [...]

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library - available on Amazon) Chapter 2 - The Will to Fail FROM the disciples of Schopenhauer and Freud, of Nietzche and Adler, we have all become conversant with such phrases as the Will to Live and the Will to Power. These phrases, representing – sometimes to the verge [...]

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library - available on Amazon) Chapter 1 – Why Do We Fail? Success as a Paradox… WITH the time and energy we spend in making failure a certainty we might have certain success. A nonsensical paradox? No; fortunately it is a sober, literal truth, one which holds a [...]

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library - available on Amazon) Wake Up and Live – Introduction by Dorothea Brande TWO YEARS ago I came across a formula for success which has revolutionized my life. It was so simple, and so obvious once I had seen it, that I could hardly believe it was responsible [...]

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library - available on Amazon) Chapter 12 - And The Best of Luck! SUMMING up, then, we have as the first tenet of success: Act as if it were impossible to fail. Beginning to put this into practice, we discover that the first demand upon us is that we [...]