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Dale Carnegie’s Top 10 Tips for Improving Your Social Skills

Dale Carnegie’s Top 10 Tips for Improving Your Social Skills
Image by kalandrakas. “The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. “Who was Dale Carnegie?” He wrote a little book called “How to Win Friends and Influence People”. Carnegie then continued to write more books and to create courses on how to interact with people, on how to make friends and on how to gain influence. In this article I’ll explore 10 of my favourite tips from Dale Carnegie. 1. “If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.” Emotions work backwards too. 2. “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.” This is so key. The body language and the voice tonality is a bit like the rest of the iceberg, the great mass below the tip of the words we use. 3. “Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.” 4. Classic advice. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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