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"How to win friends and influence people" contains so much self-repetition that it should be easily compressible to four pages, no doubt many people on the Inte
by Scarblac 5y ago
"How to win friends and influence people" contains so much self-repetition that it should be easily compressible to four pages, no doubt many people on the Internet have done that. Read one of those instead.
- noiwillnot 5y agoYou can say the same for >95% of the "self-improvement" book market.
- Scarblac 5y agoYes but _How to win friends and influence people_ started that genre, and is an extreme example of the style. All those anecdotes...
- gassiss 5y agoThis reminds me of a communication professor I had. He claimed that, over time, professors have the ability to explain something simple in 5 minutes or 2 hours. I think the point is, there's many ways to make a point. Communication is hard. Reading a four page overview of a book is not the same experience as reading the actual book. Neither is reading a four page overview written by somebody else. I also didn't like Carnegie book for the same reason you mentioned, but I wouldn't dismiss it for that reason