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Your Mind and How to Use It

William Walker Atkinson

Book Overview: 

William Walker Atkinson was one of the most prominent contributors to the literature of the New Thought movement, a non-denomination spiritual philosophy which developed in the late Nineteenth Century. Although he achieved eminence in a number of professions, Atkinson never sought personal publicity, and many of his numerous works were published under a variety of pseudonyms. Most of Atkinson’s works are manuals of practice rather than pure expositions of philosophy. Many of his books are concerned with the training of the mind, and one of the most typical of these is Your Mind and How to Use It: A Manual of Practical Psychology.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .The training of the voluntary attention is the first step in mental development.

Training the Attention.

That the voluntary attention may be deliberately trained and developed is a fact which many of the world's greatest men have proved for themselves. There is only one way to train and develop any mental power of faculty—and that is by practice and use. By practice, interest may be given to objects previously uninteresting, and thus the use of the attention develops the interest which further holds it. Interest is the natural road over which attention travels easily, but interest itself may be induced by concentrated attention. By studying and examining an object, the attention brings to light many new and novel features regarding the thing, and these produce a new interest which in turn attracts further and continued attention.

There is no royal road to the development of voluntary attention. The only true method is work, practice, and u. . . Read More

Community Reviews

A concise overview of some of the basic concepts in self-help literature that you can go back to every now and then. the book offered more of a theoretical rather than practical approach to the subject, and the language’s fluid and easy to understand.

If you are seeking a comprehensive summary to re

Difficult read, took 3 years to finish the E-book version !

good intro for psych.
For me, just a reminder of things I've read before

MY FIRST NON-FICTION BOOK AND MAYBE THE LAST T___T LMAO KIDDING. it gave me a loootttt of new insights but it was really hard to process the information since the language is pretty hard (even though i read it in indonesian which is my mothe language). my favorite part of the book is when they talke

i was reading its traslation, unfortunately its not as good as its original version

Though this was published in the early 1900s, there's a lot of information in here that's still shockingly relevant. The suggestions for building up perception, imagination, and will (more often called "discipline" nowadays) should not be overlooked!

Absolute genius
This is must read. All I gotta say about this one is if you adapt the things it says, it is life changing !

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