Guide
Pick the book that names the week you are in. Admiration is a bad selector. So is "I should finally read the Stoics."
The complimentary claim is one of these ten. Choose before you enter an email, because that email spends the claim.
| The week looks like | Start here | Not this one |
|---|---|---|
| The day belongs to the office, and the edges vanish | How to Live on 24 Hours a Day | Meditations, until the hours exist |
| Other people set your mood before you have had a thought | Meditations | A money book |
| You agree with ideas and hold none of them | As a Man Thinketh | Self-Help, which wants the repeated work first |
| Income arrives and leaves by the same door | The Richest Man in Babylon | The Science of Getting Rich, which is a different claim |
| You are sure the opportunity is somewhere else | Acres of Diamonds | A new city |
| A talk is coming and you are preparing by worrying | The Art of Public Speaking | A confidence aphorism |
| You keep a promise to an older version of yourself | Self-Reliance | A habits summary |
| You want examples of people who simply continued | Self-Help | As a Man Thinketh, if you wanted biography |
| You are treating thought as a mood rather than a practice | The Science of Getting Rich | Clason, if what you needed was a purse rule |
| You want a rule you can say out loud and then test | The Game of Life and How to Play It | Anything you are not willing to argue with |
Do not pick The Science of Getting Rich or The Game of Life because the titles sound like a plan. Wattles is a claim about thinking in a certain way, and he means it as a method, not as a mood. Shinn is affirmations and a law she expects you to run, including the parts that do not survive contact with a budget. If you want the budget, Clason is the book. If you want the argument about thought, Allen is shorter and easier to push back on.
Do not pick Meditations as a general improvement project. It is a notebook about what is yours. If the week is a calendar problem, Bennett will do more by Friday.
The library plan is the rest of the public-domain shelf, after the one free claim. Seven days free, then $20 a month. Use it when the second book is the point, not before you have worked the first.
Catalogue: scholias.com/books.