Of all the leadership books, psychology books, social intelligence books etc, this book synthesizes all of them into a simple execution able process. Love how simple Carnegie makes it, and its all valid and true. Like Seinfeld takes everyday and simply pokes fun at it, Carnegie takes things that impact people and relationships and lays out a path to improve your life. One of my top books ever.

الكاتب ديل كارنيجي كاتب رائع كما قلت والكتاب يستحق القراءة لانك ان كنت قرأت للكاتب فهو بنفس اسلوبه وذلك عن طريق سرد قصص وخبرات اشخاص في الحياة ونتائج خبراتهم وكذلك طرح وصفات على شكل قواعد تؤثر في حياتك اليوميه زيادة على ذلك الحكم الكثيره المفيده في الحياة

كتاب انصح الجميع بقراءته لما فيه من فوائد وبامكان الشخص تغيير نفسه بمجرد قراءة الكتاب

The book provides many quotes and examples from key figures in the American history, like Abraham and Roosevelt. Reading these feels nostalgic, and adds up to a good flavour.

The main drawback is the vast number of 'rules' that he provides. The book would prove more memorable if the number of rules would be a more memorable quantity, up to 8 for example.

A LIFE CHANGER BOOK

For an introvert like me, this is a great book to be an initiator with new people. Examples and situations about communication are very helpful.

Exceptional and extraordinary book that saved me many times and helped me too many times.

Christ alive, this book is dull. Definitely a lot of useful, if mostly pretty obvious, advice, but it's deeply repetitive and both the stories and his storytelling are just a bit crap. Suggest you skip to the end of each chapter and take note of the principles.

After finishing How to Make Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, I have learned many lessons on how to talk to people. I have learned a lot about myself, I’ve actually learned how I act makes more of a difference than I thought it would have on people. I have learned some of the more common rules of talking to people, and even some of the more difficult lessons. Such as don’t tell someone they are wrong, instead slowly show them the problem with their idea without outright saying that something is wrong with it. Another thing that I learned that many people know is that it makes people excited about what they are doing and they will put more effort into it. Something else that many people may not know is that if you make other people think that your idea that you put into their head is their idea, they will make sure that their idea will be the best it can be.
Overall this book taught me much about how people think and function. Something that I picked up from the book is knowing just how selfish people naturally are. When I say selfish I don’t mean in a rude way, I mean that people want to be important, people want to be recognized, they want to hear their own name. Just knowing this about human nature will help you much in life. If you can appeal to people’s rudimentary ideals and rules you can go much further than most people will. Another lesson that I will make sure to use is the lesson of if you can show interest in other’s interests they will give you all of their attention. An example of this is if you are going to get someone to buy from your business, do some research on their interests. Talk about something they love, like if someone has interest in plants or gardening ask them about their plants on their desk and get them to talk about how much they like planting. Something you have to be cautious about is never not being genuine about your compliments or your interest in their interests. If you are not sincere about your compliments or interests in them then they will know, most people will immediately see through your fakeness.
A common way to get people to work better is to build up a competition. Competition has always been a huge driver to get people to have a desire to be better. Not just being better than others, they build a desire to better themselves. There are so many primal desires you can use to get someone to do more than they are doing, you simply need to know those desires.
Another thing that the book taught me was that confrontation in general will always end badly. Foremost arguments will always end the worst. If you win the argument then you simply embarrass the other person and they won’t even have their opinion changed instead have their opinion more enforced in their head. The best way to win an argument is to not even engage in the argument to start with. There are different ways to make someone notice that they are wrong such as making them notice a problem with their idea by indirectly pointing out the problem. An example of this would be when someone is standing there doing nothing when they should be doing something, don’t tell them to get back to work. What you should do is help them to remember what their job is to do. If they aren’t packaging, hand them something to package and chances are they will continue to do their job and won’t start any resentment towards you.
These tricks that I have put in this paper are a small amount of what is actually inside of the book. Even these tricks would help anyone tremendously to learn, but if you decide to become the best person you can, you should read the book multiple times to really ingrain the tips into your daily life. I’ve used these tricks only for a couple days and I’ve already seen a difference in how people react to me when I try to let them know that they are wrong about a certain thing. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn how to become a better person and have more in life from the people around you. The book is a short book filled with many stories showing off how people have actually used these tips in their life and what they have gotten from utilizing them in the right ways. Throughout the book I’ve seen people spend an hour with someone busy even when at first the person let them come for 10 minutes. I plan to read this book many more times to really sink in the meaning of the book and take it to heart.

Provides a framework of engagement with relationships that is genuinely constructive rather than antagonistic, which is good

The advice that you will get from this book is some of the most useful advice you will get in your life. This along with David Conley's book on "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" are some of the best self-growth books that you can read out there.

It is interesting to see that the topics that are touched upon in this book are things that sound obvious. But people often forget how to operate with others, so I would even suggest reading this book every three months or so. Just to have the content well ingrained in your head.

I totally recommend it, a MUST-read piece of work!

Good read with lots of tidbits of information worth taking note of. I'll have to go back and review the summaries from each section because there was SO much information.

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