Interested Challenge!

Abdullah Hammad
Jul 23, 2017 · 2 min read

I have been assigned a project activity by the Amal Academy which is named as “ INTERESTED CHALLENGE”, what is more important to being interested and being interesting, After reading a chapter from the book “How To Win Friends And Influence People” By Dale Carnegie. I reckon that being interested is more charming and important for others than the being interesting.

Dale Carnegie gave number of examples on a point that being interested is better than being interesting, I liked the story of a boy of age 10 in his book he said “Many Thanksgivings have come and gone since I was ten, but one never passes without me remembering that particular one and my feelings of frustration, fear, loneliness and the warmth and tenderness of the stranger that somehow made it all bearable.” If you want others to like you and want to develop friendships you have to become genuinely interested in others people

As a human nature we all want some sort of attention from others, we want to hear our qualities, achievements, success stories and appreciation from others to recognize our abilities, skills and our-self.

We are so much busy in our busy routine that we forgot other people’s presence in this world.We should take more interest to others, to know their life, their problems, their goals and future plans.

After reading the chapter from the book, I started to take more interest in other persons than before, asking about hows their life going, what are planning for future, business, how they spend their weekends and much more, after taking interest in other people routine, even i often listen if other’s opinion are contrary to my opinion. I felt that people also want some buddy to share their problems and other matter of life, I became a good listener after that, I go to people, question them and listen their routine of days and nights quite gloriously. People became very happy when I take interest in them and they also start loving me and my things.

“Good listeners are welcomed everywhere”

The takeaway message from the topic is people around us only demands our attention in them. So Always take interest in other people and make them feel that they are super special in this world, this help them to motivate and rejuvenate their lives.

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