Many of Dale Carnegie's book are ones you read in intervals since they are meant to teach, inpsire and hopefully for you to make changes in your life. With that said, it takes time and so, this book I've used more as a resource than reading all the way through.

This books says that how our words make impact in public speaking and there is lot of things to know about public speaking, my suggestion is that while reading this book relate the real time examples and also past conversations you made with strangers.

His rules are simple and eat. His observations smart, and explanations are well presented with concrete examples.

I am doing more and more public speaking and found this book to be a treasure mine.

I liked first part of the book where each sections changed each other with interesting exercises for staging a speech and voice setting. Second part of the book has a lot of cliche and boilerplate stuff by successful success. Just wondering how author who talks about how do not make people sleepy on theirs public speeches makes them sleepy in his book

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This book is a companion to Carnegie's other classic, "How to Win Friends and Influence People". So some of the anectodes, passages, and principles are shared (such as Carnegie's fascination with the life of ex-US president Abraham Lincoln). And the reading of both books offers a complementary set of ideas and skills that share the same aim: learning to deal with other people, publicly and privately.

Not only is this a comprenhensive guide to developing the art of public speaking (a job it performs as it should: offering an emphasis on practice and practical, specific advice)...but by trying to solve that particular problem so ambitiously, it ends up offering the solutions an endless set of areas of life.

This book is, escentially, a discussion of every problem that involves the process of gathering and communicating ideas. "Gathering and communicating ideas"... it is what these days gets mistakingly refered to as "the creative process". Every form of art and design, from writting, to drawing, to acting, falls into this cathegory of "gathering ideas and then communicating them to an audience".

If you engage in one of these "creative activities"...have you ever gone through an "art block"? that frustrating mental block that inhabilates your action and stops you from generating ideas/putting them on paper? well, thinking of a speech in real-time is a race that makes you jump through the same hurdles. The methods described to make speeches here, effectively deal with those same barriers. n  By consciously applying those techniques, you could theorically overcome any "art block" that gets in the way. n

Ever been gotten stuck while learning *something*? preparing a speech requires proper *internalization* of the material, and this book covers tons of methods for internalization and deep understanding that are as applicable to speech-making n   as they are to learning /any/ theorical material. n

But at its core, what makes this stand out is its standing, valiant, daring desire to actually, honestly, humbly speak about that (much mentioned, but seldom defined) concept known as "human nature".

The author goes to great leghts to identify what is it that makes people *tick*.

What are the principles that rule our lives and that will make us *do* things- like let someone give us a lecture? what makes people INTERESTED in things? if we make the conscious descision to understand those principles, to disect them and review them fearlessly, then those principles will be the applicable to every single area of our lives. Whenever we might need to infleunce people to take action, or to win them to our way of thinking... to make our ideas clear; or simply to entertain...that whole process is described so beautifully and thoughtfully that it is what gives this text its trascendential quality.
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The one flaw in this text (not nearly as evident in HTWFAIP) is the same present in most other western classics of the 20th century: it is uncomfortably bigoted. There are a considerable ammount of racist passages and anectodes, and the evangelist christianist perspective gets tiring very quickly. Althought these features aren't prevalent enough to make it un-readable, it does make getting through some reasings slightly more difficult and hinders the overall message sometimes.

(I do not know however if newer editions have been edited to take out said problematic material, which is certainely possible. The book I own was a second-hand copy purchased in a book-fair years ago...and it doesn't even have the year of printing or editorial house!)

With all that said...considering how this book offers solutions to many other problems not inherent to public speaking, it should be obligatory reading to almost anybody who deals in any way with the act of communication, at any point in their lives!

well, this book is really nice. and i found few much points useful.

Vienkāršas, bet ļoti noderīgas atziņas par publisku uzstāšanos, piemēram, "don't speak until you have something to say", "a well prepared speech is already 9/10 delivered", "notes destroy about 50% of the interest in talk" un tamlīdzīgi. Ir svarīgi sev šīs lietas laiku pa laikam atgādināt, - īpaši pirms svarīgām uzstāšanās reizēm. Izsprukt cauri sveikā bez gatavošanās nav iespējams. To patiešām var just - ir cilvēks gatavojies vai nav.

If you deal with employees, customers or ... people, this is a "must" read. The first half of the book is on public speaking which is very good. The second half includes sections from "How to Win Friends & Influence People," and it's great. Some common sense, but not common traits in most of us. Things that we should learn at an early age and then make habits on how to treat people.

It was a pretty insightful book. The way Carnegie writes feels super conversational, like he's talking directly to you, which made it easy to follow. I picked up useful tips on public speaking that I can see myself applying in real-life situations. That said, the book is definitely old-school, which made some parts hard to relate to—like certain speech excerpts that just don’t vibe with today’s world. While the core techniques are solid, not everything feels adaptable to modern contexts. Still, I’d say it’s worth a read if you want to work on your confidence and speaking skills.

Useful to those wanting to improve their public speaking. The key takeaways are: Practice what you want to say, Speak in a way that your audience will find easy to understand, Improve your diction and a few more. All in all what you would normally see in a Dale Carnegie book.

An interesting and useful read. The name of the book suggests a dull monotonous subject with a lot of lectures being crammed into your head and hours of forceful study. After I started reading it, my opinions however began to change. It is remarkable how the author has turned an apparently mundane topic into a lively, witty and story-like narrative with examples, anecdotes, excerpt from novels and other books and productive and creative suggestions. You will feel like getting ready to write down a speech and practice delivering it, immediately after you complete the first chapter. I guess that’s where the craft of writing comes in.