Harry Browne has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 8 ratings. The most-rated is How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World.
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
Summary
Harry Browne believed that a person’s happiness is the highest goal he/she can achieve in life. Freedom comes from living your life as you see fit. Happiness and freedom are attainable even if others remain unfree, and it’s never too late to change your life. "If you’re not free now, it might be because you’ve been preoccupied with people or institutions that have restrained your freedom. I don’t expect you to stop worrying about them, merely because I suggest that you do. I do hope to show you, though, that those people and institutions are relatively powerless to stop you - once you decide how you will achieve your freedom. There are things you can do to be free, and if you turn your attention to those things, no one will stand in your way. But when you become preoccupied with those who are blocking you, you overlook the many alternatives you could use to bypass them. The freedom you seek is already available to you, but it has gone unnoticed.” This book identifies life’s traps - unconscious thinking and habits that prevent people from being free - and explains in a language even a young person can understand how to escape these traps. It helps you navigate through life while being true to your beliefs while obtaining self-reliance, peace, freedom, prosperity, and happiness. Many who have read or listened to this book believe it’s invaluable and should be required for every young person, so they can learn how to be free before others start to rule their life. Some believe it should be a required course in every high school, college, and university. Others believe every adult should try it. Still others claim it’s a must for all who seek freedom. This audiobook is educational and motivational, and even if you disagree with Browne’s philosophy, his logical and consistent thinking can lead you to inner discovery and profound perspectives. How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World is a book for personal liberty - one that can put you on a path to a freer and happier life.
©1973, 1997, 1998 Pamela Wolfe Browne (P)2020 Pamela Wolfe Browne
The Secret of Selling Anything
Summary
If you've listened to other selling books, you're probably tired of the false promises that never quite work out. You're probably tired of being told you can do it if you just believe you can. You're probably tired of hearing about tricks that made a particular sale - tricks that may have been appropriate to a particular situation, but not yours - and even if they were appropriate, how would you have thought of them at the right time? If you've listened to books on selling before or listened to "sales experts," you're probably tired of being pumped with hot air - told how you must "come alive," be full of enthusiasm, dominate the world around - all the things that don't happen to be a part of your basic nature. Well, this book isn't anything like that. In fact, this book was written to refute many cliches of selling that have been accepted without question for years. This book will prove to you, I hope, that the stereotyped image of the "born salesman" is a mistake. You don't have to remake your personality and become super-enthusiastic, super-aggressive, domineering. Not only are those traits not necessary, but they are actually a hindrance to making sales. And you won't have to develop that uncanny ability to come up with the right answer at the right time - that super-human knack of having the brilliant flash of insight that is so prevalent in books on selling. Sure, given several days to think about it, the writer of a sales book can always come up with a solution to a sales problem. But how does that help you when confronted face-to-face with a question that must be answered now? This book will show you that you don't need such skills. This book can truly revolutionize your selling career - but only because it will show you that you no longer need to waste your time developing skills that are of no value to a salesman. For example, here are some of the points that will be made in the course of this book: Contrary to the accepted mythology, enthusiasm is not a virtue; it destroys more sales than it creates. "Positive thinking" is an unrealistic fallacy. The salesman who thinks negatively has a far greater chance for success than the so-called "positive thinker." Sales success does not come from convincing people to buy things they don't want. The salesman who always has an answer for every objection is also probably plugging along with a very low income. Extroverts don't make the best salesmen; they are invariably outsold by introverts. To be a good salesman, you don't have to be a "smooth talker". Another all-time sales fallacy is the statement "When the going gets tough, the tough get going". When the going gets tough, I usually take a vacation. The desire to be able to motivate others is unrealistic and foolish. A really-great salesman will never try to motivate anyone. Perhaps all of this sounds so far removed from what you've heard about selling through the years that you wonder how it could possibly be true. I intend to demonstrate the validity of these statements in two ways. First, my own experience verifies their worth. Almost invariably, in any selling experience where I've found myself, I have outsold everyone else around me - usually while working far fewer hours. In addition, I've seen these principles work for a few others, too - a very few, for they are unknown to most people. But there is nothing mysterious about them - and that brings us to second way in which I will demonstrate their validity. I will prove them to you. We will deal with life logically and carefully in this book.
©2008 Pamela Wolfe Browne (P)2020 Pamela Wolfe Browne
Rule Your World!
Summary
In 2007, Harry Browne's widow discovered a box in their storage building containing eight large reel-to-reel tapes labeled, "The Art of Profitable Living, Harry Browne, 1967, Long Beach and Hollywood, California." After listening to the master tapes, she was convinced that others would find the thought-provoking course as beneficial to them as it was to her. So the tapes were transferred to CDs and then transcribed as this book, retitled, Rule Your World! Finding Freedom and Living Profitably. The book, based on the eight lecture series, examines individual happiness, morality, decision-making, developing a code of conduct, freedom, and many other important topics. The course's concepts, on which Harry's principles were based, were developed by him beginning around 1953 when he was only 20 years old. A dozen years later, when he presented the course, he was already a top-notch speaker who spoke without notes, moved along at a rapid pace, and fielded questions brilliantly in the question and answer periods that followed the lectures. More importantly, each lecture was full of thought-provoking ideas with applications that had never before been made in public. In Harry's own words.: "I put your principles on the block to see if they hold up on the foundation on which they're based." "I pin your beliefs against the wall, invade your mind, and disturb your views." "I examine principles, make applications, and then see how they work in areas of decision making, religion, love, marriage, sex, working for freedom, parent/child relationships, unraveling complicated decisions, etc." Although 40 years have passed since Harry presented his course, his philosophy of life, ideas, and principles are as relevant today as they were in 1967. And even if you've listened to How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World (Harry's 1973 self-help book that explains how individuals can take responsibility for their own lives) your life will be forever enriched if you listen to this book. Rule Your World! will provide you with the tools you need to live your life the way you see fit. It will put you on the path to a freer, happier life, and it will inspire you to take greater responsibility for your life — to quit focusing on the shortcomings of others and use the sovereignty you have to take control of your own life and make the most of it. Rule Your World! can make your life much freer and happier. In Harry's first lecture, he asks, "Could anything be more important than getting a clean start now?" Then later he exclaims, "What treasures could possibly be greater than the freedom to act on your own life. You can be you - because there is no one who has a claim on you any more!"
©2013 Pamela Wolfe Browne (P)2020 Pamela Wolfe Browne