The books
Each book comes with a complete audio course, its full text and its best lines. The first lessons of every course are free, and so is the whole text.
Thinking for Results
Christian D. Larson · 1912
In 1912 Christian D. Larson called this thinking for results: no thought without a purpose, and every purpose aimed at building something worthwhile. This audio course takes his short book into ordinary days, from a sharp email to the call you keep putting off.
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The Human Machine
Arnold Bennett · 1908
A calm audio course on Arnold Bennett’s The Human Machine, with the complete 1908 book beside it. Twenty-two short episodes about the moment before a familiar reply, and about a decision that arrives in time.
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Power Through Repose
Annie Payson Call · 1891 (1900 edition)
In Power Through Repose, Annie Payson Call separates the effort a task needs from the strain we add to it. A 27-episode audio course follows her ideas through familiar scenes, and the complete book is free to read, chapter by chapter.
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Creative Experience
Mary Parker Follett · 1924
In Creative Experience, published in 1924, Mary Parker Follett studies what happens between people who think, work and decide together. Read the book in full, and listen to a course of short lessons built on her central idea: a difference, looked at closely, can produce a solution nobody brought into the room.
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Arnold Bennett · 1910
Arnold Bennett’s short classic about the hours around work, free to read in full here. Beside it, a 23-episode audio course carries his ideas into an ordinary week, with main lessons of five to seven minutes for a walk or the ride home.
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Why Worry?
George Lincoln Walton · 1908
A 28-episode audio course on Why Worry?, the 1908 book by the Boston physician George Lincoln Walton, with the complete text beside it. Walton counted himself among the worriers, and with dry humor he shows how one thought grows until it fills the day, and how it goes back to its proper place.
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The Simple Life
Charles Wagner · 1895
Room for Life is a 24-episode audio course on The Simple Life, the book Theodore Roosevelt urged Americans to read, written in 1895 by the Paris pastor Charles Wagner. The complete text is beside it, newly translated from the French. Warm, observant and often funny, Wagner shows how preparations, possessions and appearances crowd out the life they were meant to serve.
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Prosperity: How to Attract It
Orison Swett Marden · 1922
Prosperity Begins Within is a 32-episode audio course on Prosperity: How to Attract It, the 1922 book by Orison Swett Marden, with the complete text beside it. Marden believed people were made for abundance, and he writes about money without embarrassment: a little cash in reserve, thrift that makes life wider, the courage to want more, and joy that does not wait for wealth.
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The Art of Thought
Graham Wallas · 1926
How Ideas Are Born is a 29-episode audio course on The Art of Thought, the 1926 book in which Graham Wallas, one of the founders of the London School of Economics, named the four stages of a new thought: preparation, incubation, illumination and verification. The complete book is beside it. Wallas shows where effort helps an idea along, and where it only gets in the way.
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