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A great must-read on the same idea - with lots of examples from very different social situations - is the popular book "How to Win Friends and Influence People"
by cvursache 14y ago
A great must-read on the same idea - with lots of examples from very different social situations - is the popular book "How to Win Friends and Influence People" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influenc...) . It's only 300 pages long, but there are a lot of great principles in it that one can follow.
- xsmasher 14y agoI second this recommendation, with an aside: the title was an incredible turn-off to me, but I read it anyway and it is worth its weight. It is not lessons on "How to be False and Unctuous" or "How to Abuse the Kindness of Others," which were the original images that the title evoked from me.
- jw_ 14y agoI have to agree - I found the title monumentally off-putting as well (and wound up reading it on the Kindle to avoid having the book title displayed to my fellow train passengers, how sad!) but I was glad that I read it. The book seems like it'd be "your guide to becoming a smarmy dick in 30 days!" but it really stresses sincerity and other various laudable goals. A lot of the book is obvious in hindsight but it's pretty well written and has become a classic for good reason.
- Karunamon 14y agoWent looking for it and found a copy on the Internet Archive: http://archive.org/details/BooksOfArslanhowToWinFriendsAndInfluencePeople http://archive.org/details/BooksOfArslanhowToWinFriendsAndIn...
- packetslave 14y agoHmm, "Copyright 1981". Pretty sure that's not a legitimately freely-available copy.
- snowwindwaves 14y agoit was originally published in the thirties.