Win Friends

How to Win Friends and Influence People

by Dale Carnegie. A Happiness and Relationships Self Help Book Review

If you want people to like you and respect you, How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie is a must read. The book lays out 31 timeless human relations principals and illustrates how they work with examples from real people, some famous and some not.

Dale Carnegie started working on the book about 100 years ago when his attempts to write the great American Novel failed. He noticed that many adults were looking for help on how to get ahead. They wanted to build skills in public speaking and leadership so they could participate more fully in their companies and their communities. To answer this need, he started teaching courses at the YMCA in New York City on human relations. After searching thoroughly for a text book and finding none, he wrote his own- this book.

The courses were so successful, that the classes are still given today in much the same format as those in the 1920s. Students learn each of the human relations principals, then give a 2 minute speech to the class on how they applied them or why they are important. Most students find great improvements in their personal and professional lives after the classes.

Like most classic truths, the 10 human relations principals and 21 leadership principals are easy to say and difficult to do. The stories not only add interest to the material but illustrate the how and why of each principal in fascinating and moving vignettes that bring the principals into clear focus.

These principals are not designed to be quick fixes, but it is amazing how their application can rapidly improve relationships that have often seemed difficult or beyond repair. Science shows us that happy people have a large, diverse social network. Good relationships are an important key to a happy life.

If you need help winning friends and keeping them, then this book is a must read. How to Win Friends and Influence People is readable, based on scientific research, uses personal experience, and holds your interest.

Our Top Recomendations for Selp Help Books on:

1) How to Be Happy

Happy for No Reason, by Marci Shimoff
How to Keep Your Sanity in an Upside Down World, by Dr. Jim Keelan

2) How to Have Better Relationships and More of Them

The Five Love Languages, by Dr. Gary Chapman
How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie

3) Happiness Science

Authentic Happiness, by Dr. Martin Seligman
Stumbling on Happiness, by Dr. Daniel Gilbert

4) How to Develop Happy Habits

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, by Steven Covey
Influencer, by Patterson, Grenny, Maxfield, McMillan, Switzler

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