How to Win Friends & Influence People – Written by Dale Carnegie – Is a book that helps you create better relationships with people, win new friends and maintain existing relationships better, and teaches you how to get what you want from people in a diplomatic, respectful way.
If you find you sometimes have pointless arguments with people, that you can’t manage to understand someone’s perspective or harness someone to help with your goals. If you also wish you had more friends, influence, power, and allies – then this is the perfect book for you.
Dale Carnegie emphasizes great techniques to speak with people in the right way and tone, respecting others, avoiding criticism, and finding the way to people’s hearts.
Reading this book will help to find the leader inside you. You will learn how to talk to people in such a persuasive way that they will listen and want to act on your requests. You will learn how to make people believe that it is their wish to do as you ask.
In the book, you will find that what makes a great leader is not just giving out commands but listening to others as well. At the end of the day, everyone wants to be listened to and respected. When you understand that – you will see how people attract to you and want to return the favor as well.
The more you care about others in a genuine way and have a will to help others improve – they will seek to help you as well.
When all you do is work from a selfish point of view and neglect to take of others’ needs it will be transparent to other people and they will be repulsed by your behavior.
Dale Carnegie goes through many life lessons and stories in the book that give live examples from the lives of great public figures, politicians, businessmen, actors, writers, and so on.
Through these examples, you will learn how certain traits and strategies work in your favor, and which do not work and only cause more harm in relationships.
You should read “How to Win Friends & Influence People “ if you want to:
- Improve your relationships
- Get better at understanding and reading people
- Influence people in a better way
- Create new and better relationships in your life
- Get ahead in your workplace or business
- Create better strategic partnerships in your work or business
You can practice the techniques and strategies taught in this book in every interaction. It is very practical and you will see great improvement when you practice daily.
