The Power of Positive Thinking

Norman Vincent Peale

Om Books International

About this ebook

"Fill your mind with all peaceful experiences possible, then make planned and deliberate excursions to them in memory. You must learn that the easiest way to an easy mind is to create an easy mind. This is done by practice, by the application of some such simple principles as outlined here. The mind quickly responds to teaching and discipline. You can make the mind give you back anything you want, but remember the mind can give back only what it was first given. Saturate your thoughts with peaceful experiences, peaceful words and ideas, and ultimately you will have a storehouse of peace-producing experiences to which you may turn for refreshment and renewal of your spirit. It will be a vast source of power."

Norman Vincent Peale, an American minister and author, was a progenitor of the theory of Positive Thinking. Born in Bowersville, Ohio, Peale graduated from Bellefontaine High School. He earned degrees at Ohio Wesleyan University and Boston University School of Theology. He was brought up as a Methodist and was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1922. A decade later, Peale changed his religious affiliation to the Reformed Church in America in 1932, and thus began his 52-year tenure as pastor of Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan. In 1935, Peale also started a radio program, “The Art of Living”, which lasted for 54 years and gained immense popularity. He was a copious writer, and his most widely read book, The Power of Positive Thinking sold around 5 million copies. Peale also cofounded The Horatio Alger Association along with Peale Center, Guideposts Publications, and the Positive Thinking Foundation, all of which aim to advance Peale’s theories of Positive Thinking.                  

Talking Points

- An international bestseller

- Written by the world-renowned motivational writer Norman Vincent Peale

- Inspires to have belief in oneself and in all one undertakes to do

- Motivates one to develop the power to realise one’s ambitions and reach one’s goals

Ratings and reviews

Rather shallow tbh. Uses the Bible as a means to cover for its own lack of solutions. It is literally much more beneficial to read the Bible directly instead of this book, the author calling people pathetic is also not a good thing, considering he himself is one.

This book is incredibly powerful. I've read half of it an the verses have been super inspirational and help me with difficult task. However, this is not something I recommend to people that live on a fixed income. It's only positive if you let it be positive. I will not be finishing this book. Three stars.

ALMOST ALL ABOUT CHRISTIANITY. A few good bits of advice, but almost every page informs you about CHRISTIANITY! It would be interesting without the "prayer" and "beliefs in god" I stopped reading about a quarter of the way through because I could not take any more about faith in god.