Starting from Emerson’s claim that the education of the will is the object of our existence, Marden makes the case in seven short chapters that will-power can be trained like a muscle. His evidence is a parade of determined lives: Benjamin Franklin, a poor graduate carrying his trunk home on his back, and James Gordon Bennett founding a newspaper in a cellar with a board on two barrels for a desk.
A quick, quotable read from one of the founders of the American self-help tradition. Download the free EPUB.