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The “How to win friends and influence people” book review
It’s one of those books that you hear often in podcasts, recommended in multiple interviews to people I admire and in many must read lists so it was seating in my “Want to Read” Goodreads list for quite a long until I decided to make the leap.
I guess the title made the step so hard for me. You know, it sounds like a bad infomercial. How to win friends?. I’m an introvert. Reading a book with this title in public doesn’t look nice. Not at all.
August came, and with more time to read. I read it slowly as it’s recommended by it’s author Dale Carnegie.
It’s a list of lessons with stories to illustrate them. All the lessons are so evident and common sense yet at the same time so difficult to apply and to interiorise that it ends being a very good book. A book to re-read some chapters and notes monthly, maybe even weekly in the following years.
In fact, there are 32 techniques. Many of them very similar. And I consider myself very good only at 1 of them. I have work to do. Lot’s of work, so better start summarising my main lessons:
When dealing with people, remember we’re creatures of emotion, not logic. We are motivated by pride and vanity. This is what really drives us and the key fundamental the techniques are based on.
