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FAST LIVING AND LONG LIVING
PROFESSOR PATRICK'S EXPERIMENTS
RATIO BETWEEN REPAIR AND DEMAND
PYGMIES AND GIANTS
TRANSFORMING INERTNESS INTO ALERTNESS
HOW THE MIND ACCUMULATES ENERGY
THE THRESHOLD OF INHIBITION
HIDDEN STRENGTH
GIVING A MAN SCOPE

III. THE INITIATIVE ENERGY OF SUCCESS

SOURCES OF PERSISTENCE
IMPORTANCE OF THE MENTAL SETTING
IDEAS ALL MEN RESPOND TO
HOW TO EXALT THE PERSONALITY
"GOOD STARTERS" AND "STRONG FINISHERS"
STEPS IN SELF-DEVELOPMENT
SAVING A THOUSAND A YEAR
LOOKING FOR A "SOFT SNAP"
DRAWING POWER FROM ON HIGH
THE MAN WHO LASTS

IV. HOW TO AVOID WASTES THAT DRAIN THE ENERGY OF SUCCESS

SPEEDING THE BULLET WITHOUT AIMING
WHY MOST MEN FAIL
THE SUCCESSFUL PROMOTER
THE HUMAN DYNAMO
COOL BRAINS AND HOT BOXES
MARVELOUS INCREASED EFFICIENCY HANDLING "PIG"
"OVERLOADED" HUMAN ENGINES
SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT OF SELF
PHYSIOLOGICAL CAUSES OF WASTE
TESTS FOR SENSORY DEFECTS
MENTAL FRICTION AND INNER WHIRLWINDS
PROMINENT TRAITS OF GREAT ACHIEVERS
WHY A MAN BREAKS DOWN
HOW TO ECONOMIZE EFFORT
HOW YOUR MENTAL CAPITAL IS DISSIPATED
CONQUERING INDECISION
WHY "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" WORKS
HOW TO RELEASE PENT-UP POWER
PROPER RATIO BETWEEN WORK AND REST
DETERMINING YOUR NORM OF EFFICIENCY

V. THE SECRET OF MENTAL EFFICIENCY

WHERE ENERGY IS STORED
BODILY EFFECTS OF IDEAS
IMPULSES AND INHIBITIONS
TRAINING FOR MENTAL "TEAM-WORK"
RUST AND THE "DAILY GRIND"
IDEAS THAT HARMONIZE
FIVE RULES FOR CONSERVING ENERGY
BUSINESS LUCK AND "BLUE-SKY" THEORIES
DEVICES FOR COMMERCIAL EFFICIENCY

CHAPTER I

MENTAL SECOND WIND

[Sidenote: _Sticking to the Job_]

Are you an unusually persevering and persistent person? Or, like most
of us, do you sometimes find it difficult to stick to the job until it
is done? What is your usual experience in this respect?

Is it not this, that you work steadily along until of a sudden you
become conscious of a feeling of weariness, crying "Enough!" for the
time being, and that you then yield to the impulse to stop?

[Sidenote: _The Lagging Brain_]

Assuming that this is what generally happens, does this feeling of
fatigue, this impulse to rest, mean that your mental energy is
exhausted?

Suppose that by a determined effort of the will you force your lagging
brain to take up the thread of work. _There will invariably co