Secrets Of Mind Power

188 Pages·2004·11.344 MB·English

by  Harry Lorayne

SECRETS OF
Harry Lorayne
The World's
Leading Expert
on Mind and
Memory Training
PUSTAK MAHAL
"Most folks are about as
happy as they make up
their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln
"Mind is the great lever
of all things; human
thought is the process by
which human ends are
ultimately answered."
—Daniel Webster
"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
anything but his own
disposition will waste
his life in fruitless efforts
and multiply the griefs
which he proposes to
remove."
— Samuel Johnson
"Thinking is the hardest
work there is, which is
the probable reason why
so few engage in it."
— Henry Ford
"The sorcery and charm
of imagination, and the
power it gives to the
individual to transform
his world into a new
world of order and
delight, makes it one of
the most treasured of all
human capacities."
— Frank Barron
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword 5
1. Organize Your Mind — for Full Efficiency 7
2. Cultivate Your Interest — to the Pitch of Success 14
3. Awaken Your Enthusiasm — Increase Your
Incentive 20
• 4. Think Effectively — to Get Results 31
5. Think Logically — and No One Can Stop You 41
6. Think Creatively — and Climb Out of All Your
Ruts 54
7. You Can Find Time for Everything 60
8. Multiply Your Output with the Habit of
Concentration 67
9. You Can Solve Your Problems — Once You
Know What They Are 71
10. Strengthening Good Habits — Discarding Bad Ones 77
11. You Must Trust Others — If You Want to Succeed 83
12. Curiosity Can Also Lead You to Success 88
13. You Can Learn What You Really Want To 95
14. How tc Improve Your Powers of Observation 102
15. How To Remember Anything — With the Least
Effort 108
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16. How To Remember Names and Faces 117
17. How to Make Anyone Like You — The Secret
of Personality 124
18. How To Be an Effective Public Speaker —
Without Fear 134
19. Worry Control — The Secret of Peace of Mind 139
20. How To Conquer Fear — and Overcome
Inevitable Troubles 147
21. Replace Positive Thinking with Positive Doing 152
22. What Kind of Success Do You Want? 158
23. How to Make Your Own Good Luck 166
24. When to Begin 173
FOREWORD
Since I originally wrote Secrets of Mind Power, back in 1961,
my books on memory training have become and are best sellers;
they have been translated into as many as eighteen languages.
My first book on the subject, How To Develop A Super-Power
Memory, first appeared in 1957 and is still selling — along with
some of my later books on the subject. Secrets of Mind Power was
my second book. I'm leaving most of it exactly as originally
written. I've updated it a bit, and added some material. It's
interesting that the thoughts I had and recorded those thirty
years ago still hold up, are still relevant, today.
The fact that my memory books continue to sell proves
something I've always known — that people from all walks of
life, in every field of endeavor, are interested in improving
themselves and organizing their minds.
In my opinion and, admittedly, I'm a bit biased, a trained
memory is one of the most important factors in mental
organization. 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.
There is no doubt in my mind that the person with a well-
trained and organized mind is the happy and successful person.
Abraham Lincoln once said, "Most folks are about as happy as
they make up their minds to be." It's difficult to argue withthat.
The search for happiness need not be a long or difficult one —
you can find happiness within yourself.
Yes — you can be a better and happier person than you are
now! Yes — you can use your mind much more efficiently and
effectively.
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There’s no doubt about 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 anything but his own
disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the
griefs which he purposes to remove.”
Chapter 1
Organize Your Mind —
for Full Efficiency
Mind is the great lever of all things; human
thought is the process by which human ends are
ultimately answered.
DANIEL WEBSTER
There is only one thing that can help you avoid chaos in
business — in social dealings — in life itself; and that thing is —
organization. Without it everything would fall apart; there would
be no learning, no science, no knowledge, no writing, no creative
thinking, no competitive business — nothing!
This should be obvious to you. One's entire life is built around
organization from the moment of birth — even from the moment
of conception. The world we live in, the universe, everything
about us is organized. All our activities, whether they be directed
toward making a living, or enjoying ourselves, or both, are
planned and organized.
An expectant mother follows a definite regimen suggested by
her obstetrician. After the baby is born, he is fed, bathed and
made to rest according to a definite system. Even his food consists
of a formula of planned ingredients.
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When the child starts school, he is faced with more order,
planning and organization. And so it goes, until he becomes the
reluctant participant in a carefully organized funeral. So, from
conception to death, we must organize our pursuits, or activities,
even our joys and our sorrows. Above all, we should and must
organize our thinking.
I don't mean that you should organize your thinking just to
aid you in business or in your job; although that is quite an
important part of the entire picture. I mean you should organize
your mind in general — for all things, throughout the rest of
your life. If you look at life with an organized mind instead of
through the proverbial rose-colored glasses (although they have
their place, too), you will surely see success and happiness from
a much better vantage point.
If you manage to organize your mind, you will organize and
manage your life, and it is to this end that this book is dedicated.
Be Your Own Efficiency Expert
To organize your mind is to control it, and according to Charles
Darwin, "The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we
recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."
Business, of course, recognized the importance of organization
long ago. That is why the business world uses so many efficiency
experts, "efficiency expert" — another name for one who is an
expert in organization. Just as it is another name for "efficiency
engineer" and "efficiency consultant."
Basically, organization is simply a question of systemization.
Have you ever watched a good short-order cook at work during
a busy lunch hour? Well, when you get the chance, observe one
carefully. Almost every move he makes is done for a definite
purpose. All the ingredients that he may have to use are within
easy reach; the most used, closest to him. He is so familiar with
the positions of these ingredients that he can reach for any one
of them almost without looking.
One of the countermen may order a "B and T down" — bacon
and tomato on toast. The short-order man immediately puts two
pieces of bread into the toaster and places the bacon on the griddle,
and takes out a couple of slices of tomato, almost in one continuous
movement.
If eggs are ordered, he stops whatever he's doing for just enough
time to put out two eggs. The fact that the eggs are out is enough