What can I do?', 'Just read How to Win Friends and Influence People.')

Sometimes I think it's even one of those rote, knee-jerk answers people can give when questions about this topic come up (e.g., 'I'm really lonely in college. It's all you really need.' This seems to be a fairly common response. While doing research for this site I've seen several online forum threads where someone asked for help on improving their social skills, or reading recommendations on the subject, and another poster replied with something like, 'Just read How to Win Friends and Influence People. Instead I want to share one particular opinion I have about it. This article won't be a comprehensive review of the book or its advice. The newer edition doesn't make that many changes, and still preserves the book's famous old timey style and abundance of examples about Abraham Lincoln and early 20th century industrialists. It was originally released all the way back in 1934, but most people have probably read the revised edition from 1981. With that out of the way, on to the article.īy far the most well-known book on interpersonal skills is the classic How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. You can easily get a hold of several books on social skills, and why wouldn't you? Anyone who's serious about getting better at something should learn from a bunch of sources. It's not like they cost $10,000 each so you can only pick one. I posted this article, and had these opinions, years before I even started writing my book.He just wrote this to trash the competition.' I have two things to say to that: New opening blurb: Maybe you saw the title of this piece and you're thinking, 'Hey, he's got his own book about social skills.

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