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Orison Swett Marden
El Dr. Orison Swett Marden (1848-1924) fue un autor inspirador estadounidense que escribió sobre cómo lograr el éxito en la vida. A menudo se le considera como el padre de los discursos y escritos inspiradores de la actualidad, y sus palabras tienen sentido incluso hasta el día de hoy. En sus libros, habló de los principios y virtudes del sentido común que contribuyen a una vida completa y exitosa. A la edad de siete años ya era huérfano. Durante su adolescencia, Marden descubrió un libro titulado Ayúdate del autor escocés Samuel Smiles. El libro marcó un punto de inflexión en su vida, inspirándolo a superarse a sí mismo y a sus circunstancias. A los treinta años, había obtenido sus títulos académicos en ciencias, artes, medicina y derecho. Durante sus años universitarios se mantuvo trabajando en un hotel y luego convirtiéndose en propietario de varios hoteles. Luego, a los 44 años, Marden cambió su carrera a la autoría profesional. Su primer libro, Siempre Adelante (1894), se convirtió instantáneamente en un éxito de ventas en muchos idiomas. Más tarde publicó cincuenta o más libros y folletos, con un promedio de dos títulos por año. Marden creía que nuestros pensamientos influyen en nuestras vidas y nuestras circunstancias de vida. Dijo: "La oportunidad de oro que estás buscando está en ti mismo. No está en tu entorno; no es la suerte o el azar, o la ayuda de otros; está solo en ti mismo".
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An Iron Will - Orison Swett Marden
An Iron Will
by Orison Swett Marden
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER I.
Training the Will
A Struggle in the Race of Life
Mental Discipline
Doing Things Once
Centralizing Force
Learning to Swim
Dr. Cuyler
The Big Trees
I Will
CHAPTER II.
The Rulers of Destiny
The Wills, the Won’ts, and the Can’ts
A Tailor’s Needle
What Is Worse than Rashness
Conscious Power
Do You Believe in Yourself?
CHAPTER III.
Force of Will in Camp and Field
Napoleon and Grant
Don’t Swear—fight
I Had to Run like a Cyclone
CHAPTER IV.
Will Power in its Relation to Health and Disease
I.
II.
CHAPTER V.
The Romance of Achievement under Difficulties
The Fun of the Little Game
Conquerors of Fortune
Commercial Courage
Four New York Journalists
From Humblest Beginnings
Talent in Tatters
Concentrated Energy
CHAPTER VI.
Staying Power
Proceed, and Light Will Dawn
She Can Never Succeed
I Trample on Impossibilities
:
Persistent Purpose
Three Necessary Things
Success against Odds
CHAPTER VII.
The Degree of O.O.
CHAPTER I.
Training the Will
The education of the will is the object of our existence,
says Emerson.
Nor is this putting it too strongly, if we take into account the human will in its relations to the divine. This accords with the saying of J. Stuart Mill, that a character is a completely fashioned will.
In respect to mere mundane relations, the development and discipline of one’s will-power is of supreme moment in relation to success in life. No man can ever estimate the power of will. It is a part of the divine nature, all of a piece with the power of creation. We speak of God’s fiat "Fiat lux, Let light be." Man has his fiat. The achievements of history have been the choices, the determinations, the creations, of the human will. It was the will, quiet or pugnacious, gentle or grim, of men like Wilberforce and Garrison, Goodyear and Cyrus Field, Bismarck and Grant, that made them indomitable. They simply would do what they planned. Such men can no more be stopped than the sun can be, or the tide. Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
It is impossible,
says Sharman, to look into the conditions under which the battle of life is being fought, without perceiving how much really depends upon the extent to which the will-power is cultivated, strengthened, and made operative in right directions.
Young people need to go into training for it. We live in an age of athletic meets. Those who are determined to have athletic will-power must take for it the kind of exercise they need.
This is well illustrated by a report I have seen of the long race from Marathon in the recent Olympian games, which was won by the young Greek peasant, Sotirios Louès.
A Struggle in the Race of Life
There had been no great parade about the training of this champion runner. From his work at the plough he quietly betook himself to the task of making Greece victorious before the assembled strangers from every land. He was known to be a good runner, and without fuss or bustle he entered himself as a competitor. But it was not his speed alone, out-distancing every rival, that made the young Greek stand out from among his fellows that