This document contains summaries and key points from Dale Carnegie's book "How To Stop Worrying & Start Living". It discusses rules and strategies for overcoming worry, such as examining the likelihood of worrying events based on past averages, accepting things that cannot be changed, setting limits on worrying about certain issues, focusing on the present, cultivating positive thoughts, counting blessings rather than troubles, and praying. The overall message is that worry can be conquered by applying strategies like these to gain a more peaceful state of mind.

1. Minhaj University Lahore
Junaid Shakoor
Class BSIT 2nd
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Life & learning

2. “How To Stop Worrying
& Start Living”
Dale Carnegie
By:
Book:

3. “A Law That Will Outlaw Many
Of Your Worries”
To break the worry habit before it breaks you – here is Rule 3:
“Let’s examine the record.” Let’s ask ourselves: “What are
the chances, according to the law of averages, that this event
I am worrying about will ever occur?”

4. “Co-operate With The
Inevitable”
 It is so. It cannot be otherwise
 Sarah, “If it has to be, it has to be.”
 When we stop fighting the inevitable, we release energy which enables us to
create a richer life
 Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr. “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I
can’t change, the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to
know the difference.”
 To break the worry habit before it breaks you, Rule 4 is: Cooperate with the
inevitable

5. “put a “stop-loss” order on your
worries”
To break the worry habit before it breaks you, here is Rule 5:
Whenever we are tempted to throw good money after bad in
terms of human living, let’s stop and ask ourselves these three
questions: How much does this thing I am worrying about really
matter to me? At what point shall I set a “stop-loss” order on
this worrying – and forget it? Exactly how much shall I pay for
this whistle? Have I already paid more than it is worth

6. “Don’t Try to Saw Sawdust”
 Don’t cry over spilt milk.
 I’m not going to live in the past or cry over spilt milk. I am
going to take this blow on the chin and not let it floor me.
 I won’t worry about the past?
 Shakespeare’s advice: “Wise men ne’er sit and wail their loss, but
cheerily seek how to redress their harms.”

7. “Seven Ways to Cultivate A Mental
Attitude That Will Bring You Peace
and Happiness”
• Fill your mind with thoughts of peace, courage, health, and
hope
• Never try to get even with your enemies
• Expect ingratitude

8. • Count your blessings, not your troubles
• Find Yourself and Be Yourself (Remember There Is No One Else on Earth
Like You)
• Try to profit from your losses
• Create happiness for others

9. “The Perfect Way to Conquer
Worry”
 Pray
 Focus ( live in the present )

10. “How I Conquered Worry”
 Make the best move in any possibility.
 Win from it, don't believe in losing.
 Avoid distraction incomparable.
 Encourage your steps.
 Stop thinking about the problems
 Focus on Good Things