One of the biggest challenges of an average person is learning how to face people in everyday tasks. According to Carnegie (1964), “The University of Chicago and the United Y.M.C.A. Schools conducted a survey to determine what adults want to study”(p xvii). The second common answer was “how to understand and get along with people; how to make people like you; and how to win others to your way of thinking”(Carnegie, 1964, p xvii). With barely any books published about this subject area, Carnegie (1964) decided to write How to Win Friends & Influence People to use in his own teaching courses. Consequently, another reason that he wrote this book is because he himself was curious about how to become successful, and he wanted to elicit the most out of his professional career (Carnegie, 1964, p xvi). Since 1937, when the book was first published, How to Win Friends & Influence People has become one of the best selling books of all time, proving that such knowledge in personal relations is critical for
One of the biggest challenges of an average person is learning how to face people in everyday tasks. According to Carnegie (1964), “The University of Chicago and the United Y.M.C.A. Schools conducted a survey to determine what adults want to study”(p xvii). The second common answer was “how to understand and get along with people; how to make people like you; and how to win others to your way of thinking”(Carnegie, 1964, p xvii). With barely any books published about this subject area, Carnegie (1964) decided to write How to Win Friends & Influence People to use in his own teaching courses. Consequently, another reason that he wrote this book is because he himself was curious about how to become successful, and he wanted to elicit the most out of his professional career (Carnegie, 1964, p xvi). Since 1937, when the book was first published, How to Win Friends & Influence People has become one of the best selling books of all time, proving that such knowledge in personal relations is critical for