An Iron Will
Orison Swett Marden·1901·118 pages
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“The will becomes strong by exercise.”
Orison Swett Marden · chosen by someone who read it first
Underline it in the book. In the You.Prjct app, a line from this volume meets you on today’s invitation.
A ruled margin beside the text, four lines at the foot of every page, and the Notes leave their last page open under the thing they ask you to do. A chapter opening and a Notes close, as printed.
You know what to do, and you do not do it. Marden's claim is that the will is trainable: it grows strong by exercise, under load, exactly the way a body does.
Orison Swett Marden was orphaned at seven and hired out to work on other men’s farms. In an attic in his teens he found one book, and spent the next fifty years trying to hand the same thing to strangers. This is the one he wrote about the will.
His claim is that character is trainable tissue: that it strengthens under load exactly the way a body does.
- OneTraining the Will11
- TwoThe Rulers of Destiny23
- ThreeForce of Will in Camp and Field37
- FourWill Power in its Relation to Health and Disease47
- FiveThe Romance of Achievement Under Difficulties59
- SixStaying Power77
- SevenThe Degree of “o.o.”95
The portrait is printed on the back cover. Turn the book over, above, to meet him.
The outside follows the inside.
You.Prjct is for the extra work: the lift nobody assigned, the hour with a book that nobody sees. The reading sits next to the training on purpose. A barbell does not lie about the body. A book like these does not lie about the rest of you, and the rest of you decides what the training is for.
Black covers, a metal emblem, one range across every spine. We made the outside beautiful because of what happens on the inside. A life works the same way: put the interior in order and the rest of it follows. If that is the work you are already doing, these were made for you.
Every one closes with the Notes, and a page left open under the thing they ask you to do. Read the rest with a pen.