(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library - available on Amazon) Chapter 11 - Twelve Disciplines ONE THERE are dozens of small ways by which we can make our minds both keener and more flexible – two qualities peculiarly necessary for those who intend to live successfully. We all succumb too easily to the temptation [...]

(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 10 - On Codes and Standards BUT what if you must have approval and acquiescence in one phase of your work before you go on to the next? What if your work is contributory to a group effort? That is, of course, more [...]

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library - available on Amazon) Chapter 9 - The Task Of The Imagination ALREADY imagination’s contribution to a productive life has been considered somewhat, and its help has been called on in the matter of making that favorable mental climate which is necessary if we are to produce our [...]

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library - available on Amazon) Chapter 8 - On Saving Breath EARLIER in these pages the advice not to talk has been given. In fact it may seem that I believe one of the prerequisites for success is to sink oneself into a surly silence. Nothing can be farther [...]

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library - available on Amazon) Chapter 7 - Warnings and Qualifications BEFORE going further, it may be well to issue a few statements as to what this system does not include. The advice is not to hypnotize yourself into success. This is important to understand, for many people, and [...]

(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 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 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 10 On Codes and Standards BUT what if you must have approval and acquiescence in one phase of your work before you go on to the next? What if your work is contributory to a group effort? That is, of course, more [...]