{"id":1830,"date":"2020-03-27T21:59:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T01:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossiso.com\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2020-04-14T21:22:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T01:22:47","slug":"how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mossiso.com\/2020\/03\/27\/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people-review\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Win Friends and Influence People – Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Carnegie, D., Carnegie, D., & Thomas, L. (2019). How to win friends and influence people<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a highly recommended book from many people. I had a hard time getting through it, though, based on the poor editing, and the plethora of spelling and grammatical errors. I get the appeal of presenting the work as if it were the actual lecture notes from Dale Carnegie himself (or should I write Dale Carnagey<\/a>, which was his birth name until 1922 when he changed it, perhaps to have his readers subconsciously connect him with Andrew Carnegie?), but at least fix miss-spellings of famous places or people. There is one case where place is spelled three different ways on the same page. And there is even a correct and incorrect spelling in the same sentence. Often it looks like the text was a bad OCR<\/a> job and nobody bothered to go fix the “l” to an “i” or the “m” to an “rn”. Anyhow, for a book so famous, I can’t see why such errors are not fixed. They would not detract from the message, and in my case, they definitely hurt it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I obviously didn’t learn much from the book, because I’m breaking three of the “rules” from Part 4: Be a Leader; 1) begin with praise, 2) indirectly mention errors, 3) recognize your own faults first. Well, I certainly have mistakes, in grammar, speling, and tone, but I didn’t make millions off a book with a ton of those errors in them, either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyhow, on to the good stuff. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book is broken into four parts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. How to handle people<\/li>
  2. How to get people to like you<\/li>
  3. How to get people to think like you<\/li>
  4. How to be a leader.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Each of the chapters within the parts have little nuggets of good thoughts and attributes to cultivate in order for you to become a good and wholesome person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Instead of giving a chapter-by-chapter account of the book, I’ll point out just a few things I found worthwhile of cultivating in myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n