How can we cultivate the power of positive thinking? The question has dogged us since Orison Swett Marden-the preeminent self-help expert of the early 20th century and a forerunner of Dale Carnegie and Norman Vincent Peale, Stephen R. Covey and Anthony Robbins-first revealed the impact our state of mind has over own success.

In this book, first published in 1906, Marden explains:

. How our thoughts radiate as influence
. How mind rules the body
. Why our worst enemy is fear
. How to master our moods
. Why affirmation creates power
. And much more.


American writer and editor ORISON SWETT MARDEN (1850-1924) was born in New England and studied at Boston University and Andover Theological Seminary. In 1897, he founded Success Magazine.