What Are Arnold Schwarzenegger's Rules for Success?

David Senra, reading Arnold Schwarzenegger's The Education of a Bodybuilder, says Schwarzenegger's rules for success are a three-part formula he learned in the gym: self-confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work. Once he had changed his body, he believed the same discipline and determination could change his habits and his whole outlook on life. In those early years bodybuilding consumed every minute of his days and all his best effort. He writes that if you can change your diet and training enough to give yourself a different body, you can apply the same principles to anything else.

Many people already know those principles, and very few put them into practice. He describes hearing people say they cannot improve, and he rejects that attitude. By the strict discipline bodybuilding taught him, he says he can prepare himself for anything.