Jeff AtwoodThe one part of How to Win Friends and Influence People that I remembered most of all: "What was I trying to get out of him?"
Indeed, it sings longer and louder than I ever possibly could.
Pippz@codinghorror PREACH.
Robin Barton@codinghorror I remember in Singapore at a party and man approached and stated, 'Business, Banking or Oil.' I said I was an educator at an international school. Without a word he turn around and continued to 'network'. Sad
lachlan slowly taming rust@codinghorror The book isn't as bad as most self help like books.
The one lesson I wish most people could learn from it is 'Try to care about other people.'
David H. McCoyI’ll put this book with “Richest Man in Babylon.” I think most self-help books suck, but this one is a rare exception.
TAL@codinghorror it seems I have (mis) judged this book by its cover
Luke Kanies@codinghorror “How to win friends and influence people” is a top five most influential book for me.
I did not know I was autistic until almost twenty years after reading it. But it was like someone had just written down all the rules everyone else had been absolutely insisting did not exist in life.
If only there had been a “rules for autistic people” I could have paired it with. It helped me a ton. But I also had to unlearn a bunch of stuff that was a great direction for an allistic person but downright pathological for autistic me. ( e.g., “never talk about yourself” is obviously great advice in the abstract, but horrific for actually building long term connections to people.)
B O@codinghorror if this was a Hollywood movie, the answer would be “I wanted to win friends & influence people” _puts on sunglasses and rides away_