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How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
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Sometimes I felt this book was a bit too . . . "used-car-salesmanshippy". There are some good ideas in it, but there are also some things which felt like they were extremely disingenuous. I don't like FAKE people. There are some ideas in here which are quite fake.
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August 22, 2008 – Shelved

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Daryl King Dale makes it clear in the book that unless you have a sincere and genuine interest in people, the priciples won't nessesarily work. You don't state which ideas you thought were "fake". I can't recall any that I would consider fake or manupulative


Tamara Most were manipulative. Manipulation is telling someone how nice of a person they are in order to get them to do something for you. I would agree with most of his ideas if there wasn't an apparent ulterior motive at play.


message 3: by Louis (new) - added it

Louis I agree. Just be yourself, honest and sincere and be interested in other people instead of trying to sell yourself, and the rest will follow, and it will be authentic and sustainable.


message 4: by Betty (new)

Betty Hornsby I took the class, and you could have taken the words "used-car salesman-like" out of of my mouth. Ugh.


Russell I completely understand how you could feel that. If I were you, I would probably feel exactly the same way. Now, I could be wrong about this, I'm certainly not the author, and I have been wrong many times in my life, but I think perhaps his message might have been that you should train yourself to actually feel this way, amd act this way in life, rather than using it as a parlor trick to dupe people into doing what you want. Please tell me more about why you feel the way you do, I am interested to understand your viewpoint on the matter more thoroughly.


Hanis Rofiq Russell wrote: "I completely understand how you could feel that. If I were you, I would probably feel exactly the same way. Now, I could be wrong about this, I'm certainly not the author, and I have been wrong man..."

Russell, you are truly a great man! you are really a man who read, understand, and apply Dale's principles correctly. I really like you!


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