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RE: Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People Book Review

To be completely honest, I hated this book. It came across as overly slimy in the way it wants you to tackle social relationships. But if you've been able to improve because of it, more power to you

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Same TBH, it come across quite unnatural to me but as someone who doesn't know how to talk to people or socialize, it helped me a lot in the past. Overtime, I kinda get used to more talking, more socializing, and reading the room. I guess, partly thanks to that book.

It did repel me initially given how some principles had to use a little bit of flattery to make it through the tough situations. That's exactly what I got during the first parts as a lesson which is way off from my blunt approach to communication. But seeing it actually works makes it more practical that's why I just claimed it's for beginners to for communication improvement. I needed to know why some people can be so good at connecting.

I have come to the conclusion that a lot of people are capable of handling the truth and it's a matter of how you deliver that makes them receptive. To the point that you can call them ugly and still give you a smile taking it as a innocent jest.