How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Surprisingly enough, this book has no dark underlying themes of extortion and manipulation =P
I was highly impressed and even a little inspired with the common sense wisedom this very old book had to offer. The fundamental idea was just - be really nice to people, hold your tongue when you would otherwise criticise and that listening properly is one of the highest compliments you can pay someone =D
I would reccommend this book to anyone who needs help with dealing with people... or making people like them ;) not mentioning any names, but it might even help one pick up the ladies... if one happened to be in the market...
Anyway. A good read, if a little out of date (all the examples are from the 1930's) Oh, and you will learn a bit about American history in the process... but the fundamental principles are solid. Give it a go, you might be surprised. =D
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That sounds really cool... I will have to read it, and maybe try to convince Matt to read it too... he was complaining about how nobody liked him and everybody liked me. I'm sure that's pretty inaccurate in some ways, but I put it down to him manipulating people into doing what he wanted, and me manipulating people into liking me, so that they did what I wanted without me asking... :P
You should put more tags in, too! Dale Carnegie, for starters, and maybe whether it's a light or substantial read.
I just got back from a romantic dinner with Tehnuka, so it's so nice to see that you've written something, now that I'm home!! We went to a malyasian-chinese vegetarian restaurant which was fairly nice, but it was a little off-putting, as a 50% of the recipes said that they were mock-chicken, or mock-lamb, or mock duck... ugh...
Hey! Awesome review...good on ya! It's great to have different genres, too, I was a little worried that everyone would end up looking at fantasy novels :P
Sorry for the delay, only just got back to Hamilton and am on my own until Wednesday so was lugging 7 kg of groceries all the way home...shouldn't have bothered with the cabbage...Wellington was great though, saw lots of Hannah - even stayed over after dinner ;) but Matthew and Rory are still in Christchurch or the Coromandel or somewhere, unfortunately.
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