The book ‘How to win Friends & Influence People’ presents a lot on personality development thus making you an extraordinary person. The book provides fundamental techniques in handling people and big secret of dealing with people.By reading this book you get one of the best things that ‘An increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their … see things from their angle’, may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.
The book suggests you very simple ways to make a good first impression like ‘the value of a smile’, and how to become a good conversationalist. This self-help book provides very simple ways to make people like you and how to win them to your way of thinking, and suggest how to begin in friendly way.
The book mentions the secret of Socrates, which in turn sets the psychological process of the listeners moving in the affirmative direction. The book helps in developing the Leadership Qualities too. A detailed study with various practical examples, incidences are mentioned herewith so that each concept becomes clear and easy to understand.
In addition, DALE CARNEGIE hired a trained researcher to spend one and half years in various libraries reading everything he had missed, searching through countless biographies, over hundreds of magazine articles, trying to ascertain how the great leaders had dealt with people. This will sharply increase your skill in human relationship. The language of the book is lucid and simple. A must-read book for everyone.
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I first read a copy of this book when I was about 19 or 20 years old. It contained a lot of interesting and useful advice, much of it common sense, offering better ways of dealing with issues and challenges. The main thrust of the book was to see the other person’s point of view and start from there.
I took a second look at the book recently, more out of curiosity than anything else. The book was written in the 1930s, and though updated, it’s still pretty much as I remember it. While much of the advice and practical suggestions stand the test of time, some of them seem a little simplistic in today’s world, such as the sections on improving your marriage. Much of the advice seems geared to increasing your business sales, though this is no way diminishes the principles.
If anything, there are far too many examples used, many of them repetitive. If you don’t understand or accept the principle from reading it and the first few examples, you probably never will.
Having said all this, much of the book is still relevant and worthy. Trying to see life from the other person’s point of view is still a valid and relevant value. It helps smooth the way, will make you a better listener, and perhaps less inclined to judge quickly or harshly. And in today’s often intolerant world, driven by social media, it’s a good place to start.
A classic. Worth rereading.
I’m trying to alternate fiction and non-fiction reading. This was a daily deal on Amazon Kindle so I thought I’d give it a go, hoping to confirm my suspicions that it was hokey bull. It was nothing of the sort! It’s actually a much more insightful read that I expected, filled with anecdotes and examples of ways of adjusting thinking and acting to promote better interactions with other people. Although it was written in 1936 a lot of what’s inside is useful online as well as in the analogue world.
Parts of it are dated and certain pieces of advice could lead to you being easy to be trodden on by those around you, especially in the workplace (such as never correcting someone else’s mistakes, how far before that becomes a safety issue?). If you read with a pinch of salt, there’s a lot of great advice. I’d say about 80%-90% useful, and about 10% going too far in a set direction. It’s a very useful read for anyone who has to interact with the public in a personal or professional capacity and is particularly useful for those hoping to influence sales choices within the business realm.
The title is a bit clickbaity as the actual meat of the book is more about reducing conflict and becoming a more positive person rather than making friends. I especially liked how each section was summed up into aphorisms that stay with you long after you’re done reading.
This was literally a life-changing book for me. Other self-improvement books I read were deceptively simple, being difficult to apply. This classic is no such thing. The author presented his lessons in a simple, easy-to-read fashion with lots of little stories to illustrate how the principles taught should be applied. I was able to use these principles in my everyday activities and my relationships have grown in breadth and depth. While I am still an introvert, I am no longer a wall flower, thanks to Dale Carnegie.
I read this book over and over again, it tells me how to change myself, how to treat others, and how to make my life happy and smooth.
It is a must-have
very nice for lifestyle.
This is an icon for all who may or may not struggle with the power of influence.
It’s the only way to go through life. Be positive.
Tips I learned in this book are still helpful after many years. Most importantly is, turn the conversation to them.
This was the original book about using emotional intlelligence to help with a career and all personal relationships. It is still the best one out there.