Book:
How to win friends and Influence people Author: Dale Carnegie

Subject Area: Communication

Post number: 2

English version:

6 ways to make people like you!

The best way to make friends is to be genuinely interested in the other person. People are not interested in you and me. They are interested in themselves.

A individual who is not interested in his fellow men is the greatest source of failures and difficulties. If you want to make real friends, be ready to invest something for them.

Time, energy, usefulness and thoughts.

Basic human psychology: We are interested in others, when they are interested in us.

Lesson 1: Be genuinely interested in other people.

Have you ever wondered why puppies and kids usually win everyone's affection? Because they show happiness genuinely.

Try practicing a smile every hour at someone. Be at home or work or on the road. Just a small smile and a Good morning perhaps.

The best way to be happy is to act happy. Your thoughts and feelings will follow your action.

Lesson 2: Smile!

An average person is more interested in his/her name than all the rest of the names in earth put together.

Men invest so much so their name would be remembered. The Most easiest way to gain good will is to remember the names of the people you meet.

A lot of people resist saying they cant remember names. But all you are not doing is not spending enough effort to remember it.

Lesson 3: A Person's name is the most important and sweetest word in any language to him!

Listening with genuine interest is the highest compliment we can pay anyone. The secret of a good conversationalist is to be a good listener.

You make the person feel important by paying rapt attention to them. Good talkers are rare. Good listeners are a rarer lot!

Lesson 4: Be a good listener. Get people to talk about themselves.

Listen. And when you have to talk, talk about the things that interest the other person.

The best way to gain a person's attention and open them up is to talk their interests.

Lesson 5: Talk in terms of the other person's interests.

All these exercises are not meant to get something out of the other person. If you cant

Be nice to other person and give some honest appreciation without getting something out of them in return,

you deserve failure! Having said that, the only true return you should expect is that you have done something to make their day happier.

Show courtesy.

Do unto others as what you would have others do unto you.

Lesson 6: Make the other person feel important... And do it sincerely!

So, 6 Ways to make friends

1. Be genuinely interested in other people.
   
2. Smile.. It cost you nothing and makes your world beautiful!
   
3. A Person's name is the most important and sweetest word in any language to him!
   
4. Be a good listener. Get people to talk about themselves
   
5. Talk in terms of the other person's interests.
   
6. Make the other person feel important... And do it sincerely!
   

   
   

p.s: Please note this is just a short condensed review / my thoughts of the book and is not intended to infringe on any rights or anything like that. For a complete understanding of the subject,

I strongly recommend to buy the book yourself or rent it out from a library and read it.