Why People Loved Dale Carnegie
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people then you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. ~Dale Carnegie
Remembering People’s First Names
Increase your desire to remember names by constantly reminding yourself how the ability to remember names will:
- Enhance your popularity.
- Help you in your business or profession.
- Help you win friends.
- Give sparkle to your social contacts.
- Help you practice the Golden Rule by ‘doing unto others…’
- Prevent embarrassment by showing you are genuinely interested in others.
~Dale Carnegie
The best way to remember people’s names is to use the name two or three times during the first interaction.
If you are the name-forgetting type, you probably spend a fair amount of time feeling unmoored in a sea of vaguely…www.nytimes.com
Be an Attentive Listener
So if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments.
Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.
A person’s toothache means more to that person than a famine in China which kills a million people. ~Dale Carnegie
How to Interest People
The best way to get a person’s heart is to talk about the things they value the most. It gets even better when you have common interests. Before attending a meeting with someone you’ve never met, research about their interests and goals. Matthew Capala could’nt explain it better in his article “How to become someone worth talking to, or even better, worth talking about”
How to Make People Like You Instantly
Make the other person feel important — and do it sincerely ~Dale Carnegie
Warren Buffet explains what he learned from his Dale Carnegie Training
The one all-important law of human conduct:
The desire to be important is the deepest urge in human nature ~ John Dewey
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated ~ William James
My inspiration to write about this topic came from the book “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” Thank you Dan Martell for highly suggesting this book.
Thanks for reading — I’m Elie Mourad, a student of life and a Digital Marketer.
