“How to win friends and influence people'' by Dale Carnegie was written in 1936, but the lessons that can be learned from this book about communicating, relating, empathizing, encouraging, and winning people over to agree with your ways of thinking remain valuable to this day. The author, Dale Carnegie, perfectly crafted a lesson using pen and paper to teach others about the principles of being a good person. Carnegie taught many self improvement classes to teach people better ways of communication, parenting, and negotiating back in the 1900’s. To back up the ideas he was throwing out, he used his personal experiences, his students experiences, past president’s stories, philosophers ideas, and many other examples of the principles in use to further solidify that these teachings will help in daily life. Taking ideas from someone like Abraham Lincoln to a guy like Confucius, Dale Carnegie changed the lives of the millions who have read his book, one of those people being my father. Way back when my father was studying at law school, he picked up this book and implemented the teachings into his personal life. These lessons helped my dad become an attorney and an amazing role model for me. Two years ago, he gave me this book. I underappreciated the life changing knowledge I held in my hands and instead of absorbing the teachings, I put them on a shelf and didn’t read it until now. After reading this book, I feel that I have gained a deeper understanding of human psychology and the way people think. All I can say is I highly recommend reading this book, as it contains many stories of people's successes and failures that you can learn from. My father passed this book down to me, and I will hopefully be able to pass it on to my future son or daughter. This book is perfect, down to the very last detail, and nothing will be able to change my mind. If you can’t be bothered to buy the book, there is a free audio book reading on youtube. The book takes around seven hours total and feels like thirty minutes from start to finish. Carnegies storytelling and humor makes it an enjoyable and thought provoking read. You will have to read the book yourself to understand how me, my dad, and millions of others feel.
Luke N.
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