How Brain Power Wins Success — Frank Channing Haddock — 1911

How much of success depends upon abilities that can be deliberately trained?

In How Brain Power Wins Success (1911), Frank Channing Haddock presents the mind as an instrument capable of disciplined development. Drawing from his broader system of direct personal culture, Haddock examines attention, will, emotional control, self-command, character, business judgment, and the mental habits that support effective action.

The book belongs to the practical, comparatively secular current of early New Thought. Rather than relying upon wishful thinking, Haddock emphasizes study, repeated exercise, and the conscious reorganization of one’s mental powers. Its original promotional material placed particular emphasis on salesmanship and commercial life, but the larger program extends to personal conduct, confidence, usefulness, and sustained achievement.

Association Copy

The physical copy offered here was specially printed in 1911 for Albert Lewis Pelton, the influential publisher who later issued works by Haddock, Napoleon Hill, and other writers in the personal-development tradition. Pelton’s publishing enterprises helped carry early mental-culture literature to a broad twentieth-century readership, making this a particularly meaningful copy within the history of the movement.

Details
Author: Frank Channing Haddock
Original publication: 1911
Subjects: Mental training, will, self-command, salesmanship, character, and practical success
Special feature: Association copy specially printed for Albert Lewis Pelton
Available formats: PDF and Physical Book