?Good Old Books? download: ?The Optimistic Life? and ?Every Man a ...

The New Thought Movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries had a great impact on self-help and personal achievement writers and speakers throughout the 20th century. If you study New Age writers, you?ll find its influence there. Furthermore, if you pay attention, you?ll find plenty of early 21st century writers on success and achievement espousing New Thought ideas.

Start with nothing and pull yourself up by your bootstraps? New Thought. Positive attitude wins the day? New Thought. Change your life with affirmations? New Thought. Find your passion to find your best work? New Thought. Reiterations of ?sound mind in a sound body?? New Thought. Why not? These are also much older ideas and ideals. New Thought added new spiritual twists on them. But that was the culture of the day.

So, if you read the original New Thought writers, you might think them a little preachy. You might think them a little na?ve. Yet, you?ll find the roots of much of our current self-help and entrepreneurial success literature in them.

I?ve been reading some of New Thought writer Orison Swett Marden, in search of a good ?old book download? for you. He was the founder of the publication ?Success Magazine,? and seemed to be a logical choice.

While I find a lot of his writing too much like following the mind of someone with ADHD, I have found a couple of his books that I think most people can benefit from.

?The Optimistic Life, Or in the Cheering Up Business? is a bit on the Pollyanna-ish side, but is a good demonstration of early works in positive thinking and in the idea of ?laughter as the best medicine.? Not to mention that it does have many ideas that have been validated by later science. Even if it does have comments that are a bit too ?cute.? I think you?ll find it a lot more cheerful that watching the current news on TV.

?Every Man a King; or, Might in Mind-Mastery,? is one of Marden?s more straight-forward and practical behavior-oriented books. The advance of science since his time has shown that what he wrote is considerably more complicated than his simple descriptions. Nevertheless, a great deal of his thinking can still be found in current self-help, success and personal achievement literature.

As you read, remember that he was a self-made success who worked his way through Harvard(!) to earn an M.D. degree as well as a degree in law. He also studied public speaking and theology. You can see the influences of his studies in his various writings.

If you want more books by Marden, go search on Archive.org.

Source: http://superperformance.com/myblog/good-old-books-download-the-optimistic-life-and-every-man-a-king

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