6 Ways To Make People Like You

How To Win Friends & Influence People is one of the greatest books ever written. With some of the most basic concepts Dale Carnegie is able to deliver the messages in a way that makes you yearning to apply the techniques instantly in your own life. With that in mind, we have decided to dissect a section of his book. Each post will take one of the 6 ways to make people like you, explain it, and light the fire within yourself to strive to be a better person. Let us begin.

#1 - Become Genuinely Interested In Other People:

Have you ever stopped to think that a dog is the only animal that doesn't have to work for a living. The hen has to lay eggs, a cow has to milk, the canary has to sing, and the dog makes his living by giving you nothing but love. Where are we going with this - you'll want to write this down and ponder it quite regularly -

YOU CAN MAKE MORE FRIENDS IN 2 MONTHS BY BECOMING INTERESTED IN OTHER PEOPLE, THAN YOU CAN IN 2 YEARS BY TRYING TO GET PEOPLE INTERESTED IN YOU.

This is very hard to do. For example, when you are shown a picture that includes yourself in it, what do you do first? Look for yourself. The world today is falling more into the realm of how can I get the edge over my peers, that being interested in others gets thrown out the window. Zig Ziglar say's it best -

"You Can Only Get What You Want, If You Help Enough Other People Get What They Want"

Take for example President Theodore Roosevelt, who even his servants loved him! His Valet James E. Amos wrote a book about him entitled, Theodore Roosevelt, Hero To His Valet. In this book James writes of this experience:

My wife one time asked the President about a bobwhite. She had never seen one and he described it to her fully. Sometime later, the telephone at our cottage rang. [ Amos and his wife lived in a little cottage on the Roosevelt estate at Oyster Bay.] My wife answered it and it was Mr. Roosevelt himself. He had called her, he said, to tell her that there was a bobwhite outside her window and that if she would look out she might see it. Little things like that were so characteristic of him. Whenever he went by our cottage, even though we were out of sight, we would hear him call out: "Oo-oo-oo, Annie?" or Oo-oo-oo James!" It was just a friendly greeting as he went by.

This is not something that the President had to do because it came with the title. He chose to be interested in others' lives - even his servants. REMEMBER:

YOU CAN MAKE MORE FRIENDS IN 2 MONTHS BY BECOMING INTERESTED IN OTHER PEOPLE, THAN YOU CAN IN 2 YEARS BY TRYING TO GET PEOPLE INTERESTED IN YOU.

This is principle 1.