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Michael Braun in The Hearts and Minds Project

Feb 27, 2017

Other People’s Interests—What does this mean?

I’m sorry for my silence this last week. We have entered the stage of overlapping principles, which is a good time to renew focus on all the things we are supposed to be doing now. (And yet, the one area I still need more work on is not criticizing…

Michael Braun in The Hearts and Minds Project

Feb 13, 2017

Extroverts and Introverts Agree About Our Next Principle

Our next principle is “Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.” This principle fits right in with “Become genuinely interested in other people” and will hopefully reinforce some of the things we’ve been doing…

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Michael Braun in The Hearts and Minds Project

Feb 8, 2017

When Saying Names Might Work Best

After I read How to Win Friends and Influence People back in 2009 (sometime around then, anyway) and shared it with Lyn, we both started beginning our emails with “Hi Lyn” and “Hi Michael.” Partly, it was a shared joke about the book. But it was also an earnest attempt…

Sylvia B. in The Hearts and Minds Project

Feb 13, 2017

Week 6- Say Names

It’s easy not to notice how you address people, for example, this week I found that I tend to call people by name if it ends in an “e” sound, like Amy or Ellie, and when people have short, common names, Jack or Kate for example, I find myself using their whole name. Names that don’t fit that…

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BellaB in The Hearts and Minds Project

Feb 1, 2017

Week Five : Smile

You would think this week would be very easy just to smile. And you are right! All you have to do is just smile. But instead of people being nicer to me I got a lot of criticism. People in my class were saying stuff like “Stop smiling its weird” and “You look creepy” so I said “I am just smiling…

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Sylvia B. in The Hearts and Minds Project

Feb 26, 2017

Week 8-Talk in terms of other peoples interests

First things first- make sure you know at least a little about the subject of interest of the person you are going to have a conversation with before you do. You don’t want to end up stuck in a conversation about something you know nothing about…

Michael Braun in The Hearts and Minds Project

Feb 6, 2017

Smiles and Names—Find the Creepy Line and Don’t Cross It

We’re moving into the goofiest of all of Carnegie’s principles this week: “Remember that a person’s name is, to that person, the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”

Michael Braun in The Hearts and Minds Project

Feb 16, 2017

Learning All You Can From Others

I listen to a dozen hours of podcasts every week on average. A lot of them are about sports, especially the NBA. Others relate to current events and culture, like Fresh Air, On The Media, and This American Life. Sometimes it’s hard to keep up, and I find myself with…

Sylvia B. in The Hearts and Minds Project

Feb 5, 2017

Week 4- Show a genuine interest in other people

I didn’t notice any direct results for this principal last week, so I waited until this week to post about it. It is hard to find things about other people that you are genuinely interested in that you don’t already talk to them about, but when…

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Sylvia B. in The Hearts and Minds Project

Feb 11, 2017

Week 5- Smile

This principal was probably the easiest of the five so far, but it was by far the one that I most disliked. I don’t like faking smiles, they look fake, creepy, and I think my face looks strange when I do. When my mom and sister would do their grins, it didn’t have any affect on me except that it was…

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