GoldCoinLover wrote:
Has anyone read this book? How to win friends and influence people[u] by Dale Carnegie.
It is the best book I ever read and I learned alot from it. It is so thought provoking.
Some key points:
Show genuine interest in other people.
Try and understand the situation from the other persons perspective.
You can't win an argument.
Be a good listener.
If we could just understand something from the other persons perspective, and be more open minded, we could learn alot about life and its gifts. For example to be open minded. To not judge one via a social predjuice that our society has. Sometimes, for certain people, if you're driving and someone cuts you off, they may yell "Jerk, what's wrong with you!?". This is exactly not seeing it from the other persons perspective. Perhaps the other person didn't do it intentionally. Perhaps it's not about you. Perhaps, just perhaps, that person is gong through a crisis. We do not know other peoples lifes. It is a grave error to try and predict through assumuption other peoples motives.
This leads to one of my favorite quotes of all time:
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein
12 Jun 2011, 1:52 pm
