Make the most of your life

This book aims to show and prove that the reader need not be a "brain" (in the movie sense) to make the most of his life. It gives him ways and means of using to the utmost what talents and opportunities he now has.

The book offers scores of real-life incIdents to show personality in action and to break down theories into practical, workable pointers and formulas that anyone can use if he wants to. This breaking down from theory into practice is done by a practical man who has seen it done by others and has practiced it himself and knows that it works, why it works and how it works.

When the author writes about how to develop creative imagination he is writing from his experience of 25 years with people who thrive on their creative imaginations. When he writes about how to make a plan, test it, and make it work, he has boiled down the essentials that he has personally used as the basis for his planning in making several successful enterprises work.

If you would make the most of your life you have to know what you want, and what you have, and go after what you want with all you have to offer. Lurton makes this a real adventure and points the way to an appraisal and practical application of your ambition, initiative, originality, perseverance, enthu- siasm and other personality factors.

He emphasizes and makes vivid the fundamental principles on which achievement is based in any walk of life, so that you may learn to draw more fully on your capabilities.

Contents of the book:

One You Don't Have to Be Brilliant 1
Two Use What You Now Have 10
Three You Have to Know What You Want 19
Four Make a Plan and Make It Work 30
Five You Can be a "Genius," Too 43
Six You Can Outwit Your Handicaps 57
Seven How to Develop Creative Imagination 72
Eight Self-starters Put Their Ideas to Work 84
Nine Pointers on Solving Your Problems 98
Ten The Asset of Dependable Cooperation 112
Eleven Your Enthusiasm for Life 124
Twelve Your Popularity Rating 131
Thirteen Seven-day Plan for Winning Friends 140
Fourteen The Art and Value of Face Saving 152
Fifteen The Fine Art of Persuasion 169
Sixteen The Way to a Powerful Vocabulary 177
Seventeen The Easier Way to Find the Right Job 190
Eighteen Stop Feeling Inferior 207
Nineteen How to Defeat Your Enemy, Fear 218
Twenty The Folly of Regret and Self-pity 228
Twenty-one A Code to Live By 236
Your Executive Pattern Test 92
Your True or False Popular Beliefs Test 109
How Good Is Your Memory? 121
Are You the Affirmative Type? 129
Test Your Popularity 133
Twenty-five Marks of a Successful, Popular Personality 141
Twenty-five Marks of an Unsuccessful, Unpopular Personality 141
Test Your Tactfulness 166
Test on Commonly Mispronounced Words 185
How Self-conscious Are You? 216
How Many Fears Have You? 226
Test Your Feelings of Regret and Self-pity 232

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