How To Win Friends and Influence People

The only negatives in the book are that humans are excessively complex and intelligent beings, while the book focuses only on the surface psychology of human behavior and conversations. Some might say that it enforces the idea of being an outgoing person or becoming a social person, while many people live comfortable lives alone. I’d argue with that criticism, as those people don’t have to read the book. The best part about the book is its descriptive and accurate title. Towards the end, the book also mentions how looking at things from other people’s perspectives can lead you to great success in life which is a piece of great advice after learning to change people’s thoughts to our own as people often become self-absorbed. So yes, If you want to influence people this book will get you going at doing so.

Very few of the books that I read, influence me this much, which again shows how deeply the author understood this problem and its roots. But I believe that even though Dale understood the issues and crafted a solution, he made it too bland to make it appealing to more people. If only the book had deeper psychological references than the ones that are known to most people naturally, it would have been a ten-on-ten. But again, those kinds of multi-layered psychology books are available and not touched by the general public, the book speaks to the masses on how each person is different yet the same on some level, and this gives the art of conversation the power to influence people who share the same bond of interests with you. A MUST-READ.