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An Iron Will: With linked Table of Contents
An Iron Will: With linked Table of Contents
An Iron Will: With linked Table of Contents
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In 'An Iron Will', Orison Swett Marden explains that willpower is the single most important ingredient in success. Learn how to develop willpower and then how to focus and direct it into success. If you have willpower there is nothing that you will not be able to reach for and attain!
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Release dateOct 24, 2014
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An Iron Will: With linked Table of Contents
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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

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