Poise: How to Attain It: Become Enthusiastic, Invincible, and Fearless in Every Aspect of Your Life! - Softcover

Starke, D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1495267598 ISBN 13: 9781495267598

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

"Life is a battle in which strategy always has the advantage over blind courage....Poise is a power derived from the mastery of self."

Lack of poise has always been an obstacle to those who are imbued with the desire to succeed. In every age the awkwardness born of timidity has served to keep back those who suffered from it, but this defect has never been so great a drawback as in the life of today. The celebrated phrase of the ancient Roman writer who said, “Fortune smiles on the brave,” could very well serve as our motto nowadays, with this slight alteration: “Fortune smiles on those who are possest of poise.” Poise is a quality which enables us to judge of our own value, and which, in revealing to us the knowledge of the things of which we are really capable, gives us at the same time the desire to accomplish them. It is not a quality wholly simple. On the contrary, it is a composite of many others all of which take part in the molding of that totality which bears the name of poise.

Preface

Part 1. Poise: Its need, its Enemies, Its Effect

Chapter I. The Need of Poise in Life

Chapter II. The Enemies of Poise

Chapter III. War on Timidity

Part II. How To Acquire Poise

Chapter I. Modesty and Effrontery Contrasted

Chapter II. Physical Exercises to Acquire Poise

Chapter III. Four Series of Physical Exercises

Chapter IV. Practical Exercises for Obtaining Poise

Chapter V. The Supreme Achievement

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1495267598
• ISBN 13: 9781495267598
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128