The Secret of Self-Empowerment and Success

Willpower, Mental Science, and New Thought Practices for Mind Power and Personal Achievement

von William Walker Atkinson

468 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The Secret of Self-Empowerment and Success presents the individual will as a disciplined force capable of reshaping character, conduct, and worldly achievement. Written in the lucid, exhortatory style characteristic of early twentieth-century self-culture manuals, the book combines practical psychology, moral instruction, and New Thought metaphysics. Its central concern is not mere ambition but the cultivation of concentration, confidence, self-command, and purposeful action within a literary context that joined popular philosophy to emerging ideas about mind and personality. William Walker Atkinson was among the most prolific and influential figures of the New Thought movement, writing widely on mental science, personal magnetism, occult philosophy, and practical success. Trained as a lawyer and shaped by his own recovery from professional and physical decline, Atkinson repeatedly returned to the theme that inner mastery precedes external accomplishment. This biographical pattern helps explain the book's insistence on mental discipline as both remedy and method. Readers interested in the genealogy of modern self-help, motivational psychology, or American metaphysical religion will find this work especially rewarding. It is best read as a historically significant guide to self-fashioning: earnest, systematic, and still provocative in its faith that success begins in the governed mind.

• Themen: Ratgeber Lebenshilfe, Persönlichkeitsentwicklung und praktische Tipps Karriere und Erfolg
• ISBN: 9788028374792
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.05.2024
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Sharp Ink