这是一本关于人类如何征服“忧虑”的书。其唯一目的就是帮助你解决你所面临的最大问题：如何在你的日常生活、商务活动与社会交往中与人打交道，并有效地影响他人；如何击败人类的生存之敌——忧虑，以创造一种幸福美好的人生。当你通过本书解决好这一问题之后，其他问题也就迎刃而解了。

本书是一本将告诉你如何摆脱忧虑，重新扬起生活风帆的书。本书字里行间洋溢着作者积极向上、笑面困境的乐观态度，汇集了卡耐基的智慧精华和最激励人心的内容，是卡耐基最成功的励志经典之一。它通过分析许多跟你我一样的普通人面临忧虑时如何走出困境的真实案例，让你明白如何化解人际危机、缓解精神紧张、避免情绪低落，从而摆脱忧虑困扰，最终走出人生的泥淖，重新步人幸福快乐的人生轨道。

Sixteen Ways in Which This Book Will Help You

Preface

How This Book Was Written-and Why

Part One / Fundamental Facts You Should Know about Worry

Chapter 1 Live in "Day-tight Compartments"

Chapter 2 A Magic Formula for Solving Worry Situations

Chapter 3 What Worry May Do to You

Part Two / Basic Techniques in Analysing Worry

Chapter 4 How to Analyse and Solve Worry Problems

Chapter 5 How to Eliminate Fifty Per Cent of Your Business Worries

Part Three / How to Break the Worry Habit Before It Breaks You

Chapter 6 How to Crowd Worry Out of Your Mind

Chapter 7 Don't Let the Beetles Get You Down

Chapter 8 A Law That Will Outlaw Many of Your Worries

Chapter 9 Co-operate with the Inevitable

Chapter 10 Put a "Stop-Loss" Order on Your Worries

Chapter 11 Don't Try to Saw Sawdust

Part Four / Seven Ways to Cultivate A Mental Attitude That Will Bring You Peace and Happiness

Chapter 12 Eight Words That Can Transform Your Life

Chapter 13 The High Cost of Getting Even

Chapter 14 If You Do This, You Will Never Worry about Ingratitude

Chapter 15 Would You Take a Million Dollars for What You Have?

Chapter 16 Find Yourself and Be Yourself: Remember There Is No One Else on Earth like You

Chapter 17 If You Have a Lemon, Make a Lemonade

Chapter 18 How to Cure Melancholy in Fourteen Days

Part Five / How to Keep from Worrying about Criticism

Chapter 19 Remember that No One Ever Kicks a Dead Dog

Chapter 20 Do This —— and Criticism Can't Hurt You

Chapter 21 Fool Things I Have Done

Part Six/Six Ways to Prevent Fatigue and Worry and Keep Your Energy and Spirits High

Chapter 22 How to Add One Hour a Day to Your Waking Life

Chapter 23 What Makes You Tired —— and What You Can Do about It

Chapter 24 How the Housewife Can Avoid Fatigue —— and Keep Looking Young

Chapter 25 Four Good Working Habits That Will Help Prevent Fatigue and Worry

Chapter 26 How to Banish the Boredom That Produces Fatigue, Worry, and Resentment

Chapter 27 How to Keep from Worrying about Insomnia

Part Seven / How to Find the Kind of Work in Which You May Be Happy and Successful

Chapter 28 The Major Decision of Your Life

Part Eight / How to Lessen Your Financial Worries

Chapter 29 "Seventy Per Cent of All Our Worries..."

Part Nine / "How I Conquered Worry" —— 32 True Stories

1. Six Major Troubles Hit Me All at Once

2. I Can Turn Myself into a Shouting Optimist within an Hour

3. How I Got Rid of an Inferiority Complex

4. I Lived in the Garden of Allah

5. Five Methods I Use to Banish Worry

6. I Stood Yesterday. I Can Stand Today

7. Did Not Expect to Live to See the Dawn

8. Go to the Gym to Punch the Bag or Take a Hike Outdoors

9. Was "The Worrying Wreck from Virginia Tech"

10. Have Lived by This Sentence

11. Hit Bottom and Survived

12. Used to Be One of the World's Biggest Jackasses

13. Have Always Tried to Keep My Line of Supplies Open

14. I Heard a Voice in India

15. When the Sheriff Came in My Front Door

16. The Toughest Opponent I Ever Fought Was Worry

17. I Prayed to God to Keep Me Out of an Orphans' Home

18. I Was Acting like a Hysterical Woman

19. I Learned to Stop Worrying by Watching My Wife Wash Dishes

20. I Found the Answer—— Keep Busy!

21. Time Solves a Lot of Things

22. I Was Warned Not to Try to Speak or to Move Even a Finger

23. I Am a Great Dismisser

24. If l Had Not Stopped Worrying, I Would Have Been in My Grave Long Ago

25. One at a Time Gentleman, One at a Time

26. I Now Look for the Green Light

27. How John D. Rockefeller Lived on Borrowed Time for Forty-five Years

28. Reading a Book on Sex Prevented My Marriage from Going on the Rocks

29. I Was Committing Slow Suicide Because I Didn't Know How to Relax

30. A Real Miracle Happened to Me

31. Setbacks

32. I Was So Worried I Didn't Eat a Bite of Solid Food for Eighteen Days