Recently we went through the book again and looked at it from the parenting perspective. That was one of the first self-help books we’ve read years ago, and it changed our way of interacting with people a lot. We need to wake up, “go out of the comfort zone” and challenge ourselves to become a better version of ourselves. But it is still relevant today, and even more than 80 years ago.ĭale Carnegie message is simple and powerful. He recognised that social (and emotional) intelligence is super important when dealing with people back in the 1930’s when the book was first published. In this book Dale Carnegie offers the all-time great technics to help you connect with others, so you could be better equipped for managing all different types of life situations (aka soft skills). For ‘the great aim of education,’ said Herbert Spencer, ‘is not knowledge but action.’ If by the time you have finished reading the first three chapters of this book-if you aren’t then a little better equipped to meet life’s situations, then I shall consider this book to be a total failure so far as you are concerned. Hibben, former president of Princeton University, ‘is the ability to meet life’s situations.’ Those powers which you ‘habitually fail to use’! The sole purpose of this book is to help you discover, develop, and profit by those dormant and unused assets. He possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.’ Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. “‘Compared to what we ought to be, said the famous Professor William James of Harvard, ‘compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Many of the technics from the book can also help parents to take their relationship with children to the next level. By understanding others perspective, being respectful, fostering other people’s self-esteem, you could become a leader that others are looking up to. Carnegie’s main message here is that it is possible to change other people’s behaviour by changing one’s behaviour toward them. Despite a bit cheesy title that could put some off, it offers lots of actionable advice on how to improve your interpersonal skills. With over 15 million copies sold, this book is still considered the quintessential self-help book.
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