Being Interested.
“How To Win Friends And Influence People” by Dale Carnegie. This is a worth reading book and had a profound effect on me. This book changed my perception towards people around and it teaches me a lot how to see and judge others. This book teaches me Do not criticize, condemn, or complain to others it will hurt them. Give honest and sincere appreciation because it brings out their best. Try to see things from the point of view of others to better understand them. We can make more friends by being interested in them. The Golden rule is to treat other people how we would like to be treated. We love to feel important and so does everyone else.We should show respect to other person’s opinion and ideas and make them feel special and important.
If we begin our interactions with others in a friendly way, people will be more respective. In last 2 days i’ve tried a lot to talk to my old friends,friends on social media, people on my work place and the ones around me in a way this book teaches me. I’ve also tried to avoid to talk about myself and put efforts to make them talk about themselves.I’ve had interesting conversations with them. I made them speak and listen carefully about their thoughts and ideas, i’ve came to know more about people around me. One of my friend with whom i don’t have any contact for long shares her problems with me, i don’t have proper solutions to her problems but i listen to her properly and at the end of our conversation she said; Thank You for listening me i am feeling a little better now. She needs someone who can hear her or to whom she can tell the things happening in her life.
I also had some humorous and excited conversations with other people i talk.This activity changes my mind a lot.It gives me new thoughts and new ambitions. I’ve learnt a lot of new things like how to listen others in a respectful way or how to become genuinely interested in other people.We all should show interest in one’s words if he or she is talking to us, we all should show respect to others and make them feel important and show them that we are interested in them not just interesting.