作者：[美]哈多克 著，高潮 译
ISBN：10位［7800877981］ 13位［9787800877988］
出版社：中国发展出版社
出版日期：2005-4-1
定价：￥20.00 元
内容提要
意志力是人类精神领域一个不可分割的组成部分，在我们每个人的生活之中，意志力都发挥着异常重要的作用。
著名人际关系学家史蒂芬·柯维博士在其《高效人的七个习惯》一书中，为我们规划了获取成功所需具备的七大良好习惯：积极主动、以始为终、要事第一、考虑双赢、知己知彼、协同合作、自我更新。人们都知道习惯非常重要，我们也可以列出更多的促使一个人成功的良好习惯，但这些习惯到底怎样养成呢？弗兰克·C·哈多克博士在他的这本经典畅销书《意志力训练手册》中解决了这一问题：习惯固然重要，但这些习惯的养成，离不开一个重要的基石：意志力的培养。
本书不是一本空洞无物的说教书，而是一本全方位培养人的意志力的手册，它从听觉、视礼堂、味觉、嗅觉、神经、手、韧性、注意力、阅读、思维、记忆、想像等方面一一进行训练指导，达到整个身心的融会贯通，使良好的意志力成为一种习惯，成为助你在学习、工作和生活方面取得成功的基石。此书英文版由美国佩尔顿出版公司首版推出后，成为长销不衰的经典，此中译本根据该出版公司出版的第255版译出，是一本广泛适用二个人自我提高与机构培训之用的优秀训练教程。
编辑推荐
根据美国佩尔顿出版公司第255版英文版翻译出版。
没有意志力，就没有好习惯！缺乏意志力，养不成一个好习惯！
意志是人的最高领袖，意志是各种命令的发布者，当这些命令被完全执行时，意志的指导作用对世上每个人的价值将无法估量。
——威廉·汤姆逊（著名医学博士、《大脑与性格》作者）
人们渴求成功的呼声不绝于耳地回响于市井和荒野之间，但只有一个词可以担当得起引导人们迈向成功的重任，那就是“意志力”。只有渴求成功并有足够意志力的人，才能攀上人生的顶峰。这些年来，我一直致力于一件事情，那就是唤起每一个人牢牢记住：只要我们紧握意志力的缰绳，策马扬鞭，随着高喊而出的一声“驾！”你就会向成功的目标驶进。
——鲁塞·康威尔（著名演讲家、《钻石就在你家后院》作者）
目录
前言
Ⅰ 意志力与成功
第一章意志力决定成败
意志力是一种自我引导的精神之力
意志力即一个人做出选择的能力
让意志力发自内心
第二章意志力是身体的统帅
让意志力成为一种习惯
人的躯体是意志力的奴仆
意志力是完全可以训练和提高的
完美的意志离不开高尚正直的品质
第三章意志力是生命的引导之源
意志力的7种表现形式
意志力离不开明确的目标
意志力塑造完美的人格
意志力体现于坚持不懈做好小事
第四章意志力的疾患与治疗
意志力患病的不同层次
第五章意志力的训练让人产生奇迹
意志力通过训练而变得强大
揭开道德品性
第六章人的心境影响意志力
你的心境会影响自己的行为
意志力的表现直接取决于人的思想状态
第七章意志力训练的通用法则
铸就意志力的法则
控制自我情绪的法制
坚强地面对生活
Ⅱ 意志力与感知训练
第八章意志力训练的七大原则
第九章视觉训练
第十章听觉训练
第十一章味觉训练
第十二章嗅觉训练
第十三章触觉训练
第十四章神经训练
第十五章手的训练
第十六章韧性训练
第十七章健康是意志力的基石
Ⅲ 意志力与思维训练
第十八章注意力训练
第十九章阅读训练
第二十章思维训练
第二十一章记忆力训练
第二十二章想像力训练
第二十三章克服不良想像力
Ⅳ 意志力与恶习根除
第二十四章根除不道德的习惯
第二十五章改正其他不良习气
Ⅴ 意志力与人际交流
第二十六章公众演讲时的意志力表现
第二十七章控制他人的八大原则
第二十八章意志力应从小培养
第二十九章构造一种和谐的生活
Some General Rules
FIRST SET
Rules pertinent to the exercise of Will in the conduct of life. These paragraphs should be studied and thoroughly fixed in mind, They are born of experience, and should be practiced daily until they become automatic in the working outfit of character.
1. Be master of your own Will.
2. When in doubt, do nothing; wait for light.
3. Cultivate perfect calmness.
4. Never become confusingly excited.
5. Never yield to temper, nor entertain irritation.
6. Make no decision when out of temper.
7. If inclined to rashness, cultivate conservatism.
8. If inclined to excessive, injurious conservatism (experience must decide this), cultivate the prompt and progressive spirit.
9. Decide nothing without deliberation where deliberation is possible.
10. When deliberation is not possible, keep cool. Confusion is mental anarchy; it dethrones the " King."
11. After a decision under such circumstances, entertain no regrets, The regretful mind is an enemy to a good Will, If the mind has held itself with an iron grip and decided on the spur of dire necessity, the gods could do no more.
12. Make no decision without an adequate purpose. Rely upon your own intelligent idea of adequacy.
13. Permit no difficulties to turn you aside from an adequate purpose. Mirabeau called the word " impossible " " that blockhead word."
14. Never try to make a decision the carrying out of which involves a real impossibility.
15. In the pursuit of an adequate purpose, sift means according to ends, then shift them intelligently. It is folly to tunnel a mountain if you can get a better and cheaper road by going around it. A man in Ohio spent thousands of dollars in laying a roadbed, and abandoned it to purchase another railroad. He should have made sure about the operating road first. But if it is necessary to sink money in a new road in order to compel sale of an old one, that is the thing to do.
16. The best Will is not that which pounds through all circumstances, whether or no, merely for the sake of persistence, but that which "gets there" by taking advantage of shifting conditions. Ends, not means, are the goal of a wise Will.
17. Never lose sight of the main thing in hand.
18. Admit no motive into court which you do not clearly see. A motive is like a would be soldier; it should undergo medical examination in the nude.
19. Never permit a motive for a decision to tangle up with a motive against. Example: This city is good business center; but then, you have to earn your money a second time in collecting it. Such a marriage of motives breeds confusion. Compel every motive to stand alone.
20. Remember, that a decision of Will involves judge and lawyer. You are merely and always the judge. When desire takes the bench and the judge pleads, it is time to adjourn court. You can get a correct "judgment" only by sticking to the bench. In other words, never permit yourself to plead, either with, for or against a motive.
21. In making an important decision, summons the whole mind to this one act. I RESOLVE TO WILL! ATTENTION!!
22. Make no decision while the mind is partly occupied with other matters. It is impossible to angle for fish and shoot buffaloes at the same time.
23. Never work at cross-purposes. Set the Will either for one thing or for the other. The man who tries to kill two birds with one stone usually misses both. Where the two birds are taken a second stone has stolen into the case.
24. Take all the advice that is offered; then act upon your own judgment.
25. Never discount your own experience. This is "dollars", except to the fool. The chief value of the fool's experience is its worth to others.
26. Never act upon merely passive resolution. This is weakness. It may be phrased in these words: "I guess I will do so and so." One may say thereto, with Shakespeare, " What a lack-brain is this!" Nothing comes of the lackadaisical Will.
27. If this is the general tone of your Will, stimulate it by imitation of fierce resolution.
28. The first secret of persistence is a good start; the second is a constant review of motives.
29. When tempted to discouragement, defer action to a time of sounder mood,
30. Never embark in an enterprise in which you do not thoroughly believe. To do otherwise is to introduce confusion among the judicial powers. If it turns out that your want of faith has been wrong, you have nevertheless kept those judicial powers on the bench. That is worth more than the success which you have missed.
31. If you have any settled fears in life, consort with them, resolutely and persistently, until you know them for liars.
32. Don't worry! To worry about the past is to dig up a grave; let the corpse lie. To worry about the future is to dig your own grave; let the undertaker attend to that. The present is the servant of your Will.
33. Never decide an important matter when the mind is confused by sickness. Store this rule in your soul during health; it will stand by you in disease.
34. Never yield a resolution after three o'clock in the afternoon, The morning may bring a better thought.
35. Never make an important decision after three o'clock in the afternoon, nor before ten o'clock in the forenoon. Before ten you have not "limbered up." After three you are " unlimbered."
36. The two preceding rules are merely for suggestion.
37. Never ignore in deliberation a possible consequence.
38. Insist upon seeing clearly all possible consequences.
39. In deliberation, consequences should always be separated from motives; in judgment, motives should always he considered with reference to consequences.
40. Before making a decision, magnify all possible difficulties.
41. After decision, minify every actual difficulty, and throw out of mind every difficulty which seems to be imaginary. Here are some things that are hard to decide; but then, all life is a taking of chances.
42. If you must take chances, take those that lean your way.
43. Learn to emphasize in thought, and to see clearly, remote motives, contingencies and consequences. Be sure that they are not overshadowed by those which are near. Example: I wish to economize in order to secure a home; but at present, I desire a vacation. The home is very remote, while the period of rest is very near and clamorous.
44. In weighing motives, have a care that desire does not tip the scale. "In making an effort to fix our mind on a distant good or a remote evil we know that we are acting in the direction of our true happiness. Even when the representation of the immediate result is exerting all its force, and the representation of the distant one is faint and indistinct, we are vaguely aware that the strongest desire lies in this direction. And the resolute direction of attention in this quarter has for its object to secure the greatest good by an adequate process of representation."
45. Never lie to yourself in the consideration of motives and consequences. If you must lie, practice on other people; they will find you out; but if you continue to lie to yourself, you are a lost fool.
46. Remember always that the lie is the dry rot of Will.
47. Be absolutely genuine and sincere. Yet, withal, this gives you no right to ride, roughshod over neighboring humanity.
48. Never perform an act, nor make a decision, in opposition to what Socrates called his " Daimonion,", the inner voice that whispers, "Better not! "
49. When you write to an enemy a letter in which you scorch his soul, be happy, but do not mail it until tomorrow. You will then see that you have written too much. Condense it by half, but do not mail it until tomorrow. It will keep. Do not destroy it. It is a good letter. Tomorrow you will again condense it. When you can write a brief, plain, but courteous letter, in which you reveal good breeding and disclose reticence, do so, and instantly mail it, grateful for common sense.
50. Never resolve upon an act which will, or may injure other people, or injure yourself.
51. Measure motives by your noblest selfhood.
52. Dismiss without consideration motives or actions which you clearly recognize to be contrary to your best instincts.
53. In all conflicts between duty and pleasure, give duty the benefit of the doubt.
54. Never act contrary to your clearest judgment. Others may be right; but, in the long run, better is mistake in your own judgment than right on the judgment of others. Do not abdicate the throne.
55. Cultivate as a permanent habit of mind the positive Mood of willing.
Never will to be an imitator or a follower.
You can so will unconsciously; therefore resolve to lead and to invent and move out on new lines.
It is impossible to deliberate over every detail of conduct. Hence life must become habituated to right general principles. "A force endowed with intelligence, capable of forming purposes and pursuing self chosen ends, may neglect those rules of action which alone can guide it safely, and thus at last wholly miss the natural ends of its being. To such a being, eternal vigilance would be the price of liberty."
