How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie · Classic advice on getting along with people, making them like you, and persuading them.
37 people say it helped them, in their own words on Hacker News.
What people said
Dale's book helped me go from virtually no friends to having many treasured relationships in my life, across interests and divides that I never would've even bothered to have explore if not for that book.
Those two books completely changed my life. They helped me become more confident, less socially anxious and be able to connect with people in a much deeper way than I was capable of before.
After reading this book, I try to make every conversation I have into a little game, where the goal is to get the other person to talk more, and about themselves, than I do.
It helped me realize how selfish I was in some ways when interacting with others and how little changes (that aren't slimy/creepy) can make me get along better with others.
This book taught me that the way you put forward your thoughts also matters. You can be right without being a dick and without screwing up your relationships with others.
It changed how I viewed social interactions and made me realise it’s just another skill you can work at, with guidance even.
that book brought me from a depressed cynic to someone who takes an interest in others and basically the whole world is my friend
How to Win Friends and Influence People. I was lacking in this area and my career improved greatly after reading it.
How to Win Friends and Influence People - stopped me from being pedantic and argumentative
I learned about this from Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, which is a great book you should read. I read this book in 7th grade and it changed my life.
It really changed how I try to approach disagreements. I find myself rereading it periodically and trying to implement more and more of the suggestions.
I found the book 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' pretty helpful to understanding how important emotions are when working with people.
I treated it like a text book, and it changed my life completely. I was happier, more able to be sociable, and I could get along with people.
How to Win Friends and Influence People (great book with awful title) helped me develop the empathy necessary to solve real problems.
One book which really helped me in learning to get along with people is Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People."
It was hard for me to overcome my shyness and look people in the eye and smile, but with constant practice I got better at it.
for a younger me, it taught me just how much we as a species think only of ourselves, how you can never win an argument, how you cannot browbeat someone into submission.
internalizing the core message of that book has helped me throughout life to connect with people and step outside my comfort zone consistently.
"How to Win Friends and Influence People" really helped me understand where I was running into problems when interacting with people.
It fundamentally changed how I viewed debates etc. from a young age so I never really sea-lioned that much hopefully.
The title may be a bit offputting, but I found the book to be the catalyst that led to a lot of positive self-change.
It made me look at human nature more objectively, take it less personally, and navigate it more effectively.
I read "How To Win Friends And Influence People" by Dale Carnegie when I was a teen, and it changed my life.
I started university somewhat socially awkward and feel the book helped me better capture social nuances.
It served as a guideline on how to interact with people when I didn’t have a role model to look up to.
It helped me immensely, especially points like not criticizing people and thinking it’s helpful.
Helped me understand the dynamics of relationships in a unon manipulative and empathetic way.
Reading this book really changed my personality in interviews and the office for the better.
The definitive guidebook to interpersonal relations. Taught me empathy.
Go read the book. I did. It changed how I interact with people.
the book made me realize how 'utilitarian' and sometimes selfish I was in communication with others.
already after 4 chapters it has changed how I think about how I interact with people.
that book changed how I’ve approached such situations dramatically.
that book literally changed the way I communicate with people.
that book literally changed the way I communicate with people.
This book has changed how I talk to people.
after reading this book I had a good idea of how to approach people, propose ideas, listen to their needs and collaborate on a service that I could provide them
Description from Open Library
Available for the first time ever in trade paperback, Dale Carnegie's enduring classic, the inspirational personal development guide that shows how to achieve lifelong success. One of the top-selling books of all time, "How to Win Friends & Influence People" has sold more than 15 million copies in all its editions.
What people got from it AI summary
Best if you feel awkward, argumentative or self-focused around people and want practical ways to connect.
- Built real friendships
- Ended needless arguments
- Taught empathy and listening
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Practical tools · 283 pages
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