Harry Lorayne’s Secrets of Mind Power: How to Organize and Develop the Hidden Powers of Your Mind

264 Pages·1961·29.16 MB·English

by  Harry Lorayne

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Harry Lorayne's

SECRETS OF MIND POWER

This book will enable you to become a person
with a perfectly organized mind. This guide

to clearer and more productive thinking will

analyze and discuss your various problems
.
.
.

it will show you how to get rid of bad mental

habits
that may
be
blocking
your way
to

success
.
.
. and
it
reveals
simple,
practical

steps you can take—in your business, social and

private life— to put yourself in full control of
your success and happiness so that you can get

all that you deserve out of life.

Here are Harry Lorayne's

top-flight secrets for

increasing your mental powers:

The one piece of knowledge that makes it

possible to learn anything.

Practical rules for straight thinking—toward
meaningful goals.
Exercises to increase your mental capacity—in
any area.
Ways of developing your creative imagination
—so that it really produces.
Avoiding the deadly grooves of habit and
defeatism.
How to overcome your biggest lie: "I'm doing

the best I can."
Handling emotions liable to interfere with
anyone's success.
Thinking without emotional bias about people
you love or hate.
Cultivating time-saving habits—for greater

efficiency.
How to find time for anything—and everything.
The 24 Hour Method of breaking any habit

—

no matter how bad.
How to make money decisions—painlessly.
Exercises in concentration to develop your
unused brain power.

(Continued on back flap)

Secrets of Mind Power

Books by Harry Lorayne

SECRETS OF MIND POWER
HOW TO DEVELOP
A SUPER-POWER MEMORY

Harry Lorayne's
SECRETS OF
MIND POWER

How to organize and develop

the hidden powers of your mind

Frederick Fell, Inc. Publishers, New York

Copyright © 1961 by Harry Lorayne

All rights reserved

For information, address Frederick Fell, Inc. Publishers

386 Park Avenue South, New York 16, N. Y.

Manufactured in the United States of America

by H. Wolff, New York

Published simultaneously in Canada

by George J. McLeod, Limited, Toronto

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 61-9267

IN MEMORY OF MIKE ESTRIN

"We are born unarmed. Our mind is our only weapon."

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Foreword

Some time ago, I had the privilege of having a book

published by Frederick Fell, Inc. The title of the book was,
How to Develop a Super-Power Memory. Since its publi-

cation, I am happy to say that it has become one of the

largest sellers in its particular field.

This proved something I'd always known—that people

from all walks of life, in every field of endeavor, are in-

terested
in improving themselves and
organizing
their

minds.

I definitely contend that a trained memory
is one of

the most important factors in mental organization. How-

ever, there are, of course, many other factors involved.

It
is mostly with these other factors that
this book
is

concerned, although the subject of memory has not been

ignored.

Foreword
viii

There is no doubt in my mind that the person with a

well-trained and organized mind—with a Thinking-Ma-

chine Mind as I prefer to call it—is the happy and success-

ful person.

Let me prove this to you, right from the
start.
I want

you to try a simple experiment with me now.
I want to

prove that you can actually become a Mental Wizard in

one evening with these techniques of organizing the pow-

ers of your mind. In other words, that just by reading a
few pages of this book, and mastering one simple
trick,

you can amaze your family and friends that very same

night. Here's how.

Simply turn to page 144, and read through to page 147.

These few pages will give you the basic secret of all mem-

ory association. Practice this technique just once, and then

call in your family and watch their faces as you put it to

work.

In that one moment, you learn, dramatically and un-

forgettably that mind power is a trick. And you can learn

that trick far faster and easier than you would have ever

believed before you read this book.

Yes—you can be a better and happier person than you

are! Yes—you can get much more out of that brain of yours.

There's no doubt of
it. Just make up your mind that this

is true and you will be able to use the brain power you

have to much better advantage.

Samuel Johnson wrote: "The fountain of content must

spring up in the mind, and he who has so little knowledge

of human nature as to seek happiness by changing any-

thing but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless

efforts and multiply the griefs which he purposes to re-

move."

Contents

Foreword
vii

1.
Organize Your Mind—for Full Efficiency
3

2.
Cultivate Your
Interest—to
the
Pitch
of Suc-

cess
13

3.
Awaken Your Enthusiasm—Increase Your Incen-

tive
21

4.
Think Effectively—to Get Results
34

5.
Think Logically—and No One Can Stop
You
47

6.
Think Creatively—and Climb Out of All Your

Ruts
67

7.
You Can Find Time for Everything
75

8.
Multiply Your Output by the Habit of Concen-

tration
85

Contents
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9.
You Can Solve Your Problems—Once You Know
What They Are
91

10.
Strengthening Good Habits—Discarding Bad
Ones
100

11.
You Musi Trust Others—If You Want to Suc-
ceed
108

12.
Curiosity Can Also Lead You to Success
115

13.
You Can Learn What You Really Want To
125

14.
How To Improve Your Powers of Observa-

tion
135

15.
How To Remember Anything—With the Least

Effort
143

16.
How To Remember Names and Faces
155

17.
How To Make Anyone Like You—The Secret of
Personality
165

18.
How To Be an Effective Public Speaker—With-

out Fear
180

19.
Worry Control—The Secret of Peace of
Mind
187

20.
How To Conquer Fear—and Overcome
Inevi-

table Troubles
197

21.
Replace Positive Thinking with Positive
Doing
204

22.
What Kind of Success Do You Want?
213

2-3.
How To Make Your Own Good Luck
224

2A.
When to Begin
236

Secrets of Mind Power