Book Review: How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie

Embark on a journey through the pages of Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People," we discuss Carnegie's four-part framework for handling people, making friends, persuading others, and leading with grace. This isn't just storytelling; it's an exploration of concrete strategies used by icons like Abraham Lincoln that remain surprisingly applicable in today's world.

Strap in for a candid discussion on how to apply Carnegie's principles, as I reflect on my own experiences with empathy and its pivotal role in connecting with others. This episode isn't simply a trip down memory lane with historical anecdotes; it's a contemporary twist on proven advice, earning a near-perfect score on my personal book scale. Join me for an episode that will not only challenge you to think differently about your interactions but empower you to leave a lasting impact on everyone you meet. No guest required when the content is this engaging—prepare to give your interpersonal skills the upgrade they've been waiting for.

The Review Scale

5 - Earns a Permanent Spot in my Library!
4 - Great book!
3- Its a Good One
2- Its alright, but not for me.
1- Trust me, Don't Waste Your TIME!

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:33

Welcome to Talk Mode. I'm your host, wahab, and today we're going to be diving into a book review for how to win friends and influence people. Let's get into it. Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of Talk Mode. As for the intro, we're getting into a book review today. Today's book is how to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie if I'm pronouncing that right First published in 1937, waiting in at 268 pages. We're going to be looking at this book Nonfiction. Obviously, as mentioned in previous episodes, I'm looking through a lot of nonfiction books this year. Let me get into the blurb and then we'll discuss some of the things that are within the book.

Speaker 1: 1:35

Top of the blurb the only book you need to lead you to success. In his exuberant conversational style, internationally bestselling author Dale Carnegie offers practical advice and techniques for how to get out of a mental rut and make your life more rewarding. His advice has stood the test of time and will tell you how to make friends quickly and easily when people over to your way of thinking, improve your conversation skills and become more entertaining. And final bullet point says acquire new clients and customers. How to Win Friends and Influence People has the potential to turn around your relationships and improve your dealings with all of the people in your life. The Times writes Classic, the Daily Express writes gave birth to self-improvement industry that spans the globe. And on the front it says Carnegie changed my life. That's a quote from Warren Buffett.

Speaker 1: 2:38

So high praise for this book, this book, the key themes within the book, I want to say, are split into four parts and then within that it gives you different skills and tells you a lot of stories in the book that kind of apply those skills and gives examples of really successful people. Bear in mind that the book was originally published in 1937. The examples are from way back when, so it talks about Abram Lincoln and Charles Dickens and people from back then. The four fundamental parts that is broken up into is part one, fundamental techniques in handling people. Part two, six ways to make people like you. Part three is how to win people to your way of thinking. And part four is be a leader, how to change people without giving offence or arousing resentment. You know what, genuinely, this book, the style that Dale Carnegie writes in, is actually very conversational. He talks through and explores ideas and then gives examples of how some people applied their ideas and found success and how some people who didn't apply their ideas and what their results were when they've tried something different. And it's really it's a really well thought out and informational book.

Speaker 1: 4:20

For me, the key it's providing key information of how to deal with people, but the main theme over-archingly, is something that I'm actually quite a funnel of anyway and I've tried to apply it in my day-to-day life already. This is just showing me how to apply it in different situations, and that number one thing is empathy. This whole book is about having empathy, understanding other people's perspectives, putting yourself in their position and not trying to put anyone down, but rather trying to understand them and communicate with them in a better way so that they come around to your way of thinking or you come to a nice solid middle ground where both of you benefit. That's the whole overarching premise of this book. So let's put it on my scale, yeah, so yeah, it's a kind of a difficult one. It's really between if you don't know my scale, please look down in the show notes. You'll see. My scale is outlined there for you and for me it's very much between a four and a five.

Speaker 1: 5:41

The question is does this an up-permanent spot in my library and you know what. To be fair, I think it does. I think it does so. For me this is going to set out a nice five. Only just, only, just a five. And in fact I don't think it's anything that a book does wrong that makes it only just scratch the five. I think it's more the fact that the examples in there are from a older time and it'd be nice to get more contemporary examples, and if this book was written today, it would be a full-on, solid five. So I think the content of the book is still great. Old advice is still great and applicable today. It just really in the book. It'd be more relatable if the examples and given for those different situations were more up to date. Although saying that they have, according to the preface of the book, they have already updated it somewhat. So yeah, I thought this was a great book and, yeah, it will have an up-permanent spot on my shelf. Well, that's another quick five-minute book review done and as book two of this year, I am currently reading the Suttonaut of Not Giving a Thought and hopefully we'll have a review for that at some point soon.

Speaker 1: 7:07

Thank you very much for listening. Please let me know if you have any thoughts On this book? Have you read it? Did you find it useful? Or are you reading any other non-fiction books at this moment in time that are in this similar sort of space of self-improvement, communication, business, all that kind of stuff? If you have any of them and have any recommendations, please let me know. You can either do that by contacting me at wwwariginalscom, on Instagram and DMs or going over to YouTube. If you're not already listening to podcasts there, you can go find the podcast on YouTube, search TalkMode or WehavOriginal, and go comment on the podcast. Either way. Thank you guys again once for listening and joining me today. I'll see you on the next one.