  (An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library - available on Amazon) Chapter 6 - The System in Operation IF you are the possessor of a very vivid imagination, you will probably be already well on the way towards practice with no more than the clue in that sentence: Act as if it were impossible […] The post Chapter 6 – The System in Operation – Wake Up and Live – 03 appeared first on Living Sensical.

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Chapter 6 – The System in Operation – Wake Up and Live – 03

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library - available on Amazon) Chapter 5 - Righting the Direction In spite of the will to fail, in spite of the rewards of failure, success is the normal aim of man, his proper objective. Energy is correctly used, not by spending it to hold ourselves inactive, nor by […] The post Chapter 5 – Righting the Direction – Wake Up and Live – 03 appeared first on Living Sensical.

Chapter 5 – Righting the Direction – Wake Up and Live – 03

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library - available on Amazon) Chapter 4 - The Rewards of Failure ABSURD as it may seem at first consideration that anyone would solemnly enter into even an unconscious conspiracy to fail, it is a matter of observation that there is hardly one person in a hundred who does […] The post Chapter 4 – The Rewards of Failure – Wake up and Live – 03 appeared first on Living Sensical.

Chapter 4 – The Rewards of Failure – Wake up and Live – 03

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library - available on Amazon) Chapter 3 - Victims of The Will to Fail IF the Will to Fall announced its presence with symptoms as uniform and unmistakable as those which indicate measles or a bad cold, it would probably have been eradicated, or a technique for combating it […] The post Chapter 3 – Victims of the Will to Fail – Wake Up and LIve – 03 appeared first on Living Sensical.

Chapter 3 – Victims of the Will to Fail – Wake Up and LIve – 03

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library - available on Amazon) Chapter 3 - Victims of The Will to Fail IF the Will to Fall announced its presence with symptoms as uniform and unmistakable as those which indicate measles or a bad cold, it would probably have been eradicated, or a technique for combating it […] The post Chapter 3 – Victims of the Will to Fail – Wake Up and Live – 03 appeared first on Living Sensical.

Chapter 3 – Victims of the Will to Fail – Wake Up and Live – 03

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library available on Amazon) Chapter 2 The Will to Fail FROM the disciples of Schopenhauer and Freud, of Nietzche and Adler, we have all become conversant with such phrases as the Will to Live and the Will to Power. These phrases, representing – sometimes to the verge […] The post Chapter 2 – The Will to Fail – Wake Up and Live – 03 appeared first on Living Sensical.

Chapter 2 – The Will to Fail – Wake Up and Live – 03

  (An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library available on Amazon) Chapter 1 – Why Do We Fail? Success as a Paradox… WITH the time and energy we spend in making failure a certainty we might have certain success. A nonsensical paradox? No; fortunately it is a sober, literal truth, one which holds a […] The post Chapter 1 – Why Do We Fail? Success as a Paradox…03 appeared first on Living Sensical.

Chapter 1 – Why Do We Fail? Success as a Paradox…03

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library available on Amazon) Wake Up and Live – Introduction by Dorothea Brande TWO YEARS ago I came across a formula for success which has revolutionized my life. It was so simple, and so obvious once I had seen it, that I could hardly believe it was responsible […] The post Wake Up and Live – Introduction by Dorothea Brande – 03 appeared first on Living Sensical.

Wake Up and Live – Introduction by Dorothea Brande – 03

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library available on Amazon) Chapter 12 And The Best of Luck! SUMMING up, then, we have as the first tenet of success: Act as if it were impossible to fail. Beginning to put this into practice, we discover that the first demand upon us is that we […] The post Chapter 12 – And the Best of Luck! – Wake Up and Live – 02 appeared first on Living Sensical.

Chapter 12 – And the Best of Luck! – Wake Up and Live – 02

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library available on Amazon) Chapter 11 Twelve Disciplines ONE THERE are dozens of small ways by which we can make our minds both keener and more flexible – two qualities peculiarly necessary for those who intend to live successfully. We all succumb too easily to the temptation […] The post Chapter 11 – Twelve Disciplines – Wake Up and Live – 02 appeared first on Living Sensical.

Chapter 11 – Twelve Disciplines – Wake Up and Live – 02

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library available on Amazon) Wake Up and Live – Introduction by Dorothea Brande TWO YEARS ago I came across a formula for success which has revolutionized my life. It was so simple, and so obvious once I had seen it, that I could hardly believe it was responsible […] The post Wake Up and Live – Introduction by Dorothea Brande – 02 appeared first on Living Sensical.

Wake Up and Live – Introduction by Dorothea Brande – 02

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library available on Amazon) Chapter 10 On Codes and Standards BUT what if you must have approval and acquiescence in one phase of your work before you go on to the next? What if your work is contributory to a group effort? That is, of course, more […] The post Chapter 10 – On Codes and Standards – Wake Up and Live – 02 appeared first on Living Sensical.

Chapter 10 – On Codes and Standards – Wake Up and Live – 02

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library available on Amazon) Chapter 9 The Task Of The Imagination ALREADY imagination’s contribution to a productive life has been considered somewhat, and its help has been called on in the matter of making that favorable mental climate which is necessary if we are to produce our […] The post Chapter 9 – The Task of the Imagination – Wake Up and Live – 02 appeared first on Living Sensical.

Chapter 9 – The Task of the Imagination – Wake Up and Live – 02

(An excerpt from The Strangest Secret Library available on Amazon) Chapter 8 On Saving Breath EARLIER in these pages the advice not to talk has been given. In fact it may seem that I believe one of the prerequisites for success is to sink oneself into a surly silence. Nothing can be farther […] The post Chapter 8 – On Saving Breath – Wake Up and Live – 02 appeared first on Living Sensical.

Chapter 8 – On Saving Breath – Wake Up and Live – 02

Dorothea Brande considered herself a failure. After reading a section in a textbook, she suddenly had a revelation - "Act as if it is impossible to fail." Applying that to her life, she soon went into production with many books, lectures, and editing assignments successfully completed. Listen to these podcast to find out more...