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I would definitely recommend How to Win Friends and Influence People as an addition to the list. I'd say that learning how to deal with people and communicate i
by seanlinehan 12y ago
I would definitely recommend How to Win Friends and Influence People as an addition to the list. I'd say that learning how to deal with people and communicate ideas effectively is at least as important as learning how to think.
This is also a book I recommend reading, re-reading, and then re-reading again for people of all ages.
Edit: I'd also probably recommend Innumeracy[0] which is a fun book about dealing with numbers. It has some pretty great strategies for coming up with good back-of-napkin estimations which is a pretty useful skill.
[0] http://www.amazon.com/Innumeracy-Mathematical-Illiteracy-Its-Consequences/dp/0809058405 http://www.amazon.com/Innumeracy-Mathematical-Illiteracy-Its...
- rndn 12y agoHere is a summary of HtWFaIP that I stumbled upon the other day: http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/win-friends.html http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/win-friends.htm...
- walterbell 12y agoThe 13-week Dale Carnegie Course is orders of magnitude more valuable than the DC book, I wonder if anyone has adapted it for kids.
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- nickysielicki 12y agofwiw, i read this when I was around 14. It was mostly lost on me. It's a fantastic book, and I can appreciate that now, but I feel personally I wasn't ready for it. I needed to develop a sense of empathy.
- unimpressive 12y agoAs a counterpoint to what nickysielicki wrote, I read this book when I was 13-14 and it helped me develop a sense of empathy. Thoroughly second this recommendation. For anybody who reads this and think the advice sounds phony, the key with all of it is to be genuinely interested in the other person. This is hard to fake and even otherwise unassuming people might be more interesting than you'd think at first glance.