How to win friends and influence people

Overview

• Be interesting in other people
• Easy way to become a good conversationalist
• A sure way of Making Enemies...And how to avoid it

Be interesting in other people

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interesting in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

How do you interpreter this sentence? Maybe you feel astonishing about how wrong you were when making friends. Most of us making friends through impressing other people instead of showing our interest to them.

However, the author believes that showing how good you are only makes people feel how small they are. Trying to express interest instead showing off yourself, let them feel important who they are. Start from now, you will make friends instead of enemies.

Easy way to become a good conversationalist

People you are talking to are hundred times more interested in themselves.

Have you ever been struggling with conversation? The most easiest way to let conversation flow is to encourage people to talk about themselves, either their achievement or accomplishment.

Everyone has their own ego. When they talking about their own things, their ego growth. Encouraging them to talk is a good way to not let their ego growing in the way against you.

A sure way of Making Enemies...And how to avoid it

Be wiser than anybody you can, but don't tell them so.

Have you ever seen people making mistake or giving wrong idea in the talking? Sometime they talk things with very obvious mistake that people can't help to correct their mistakes.

However, telling people they are wrong is a sure way of making enemy. Vice versa, if you wanna make friend with this person, simply say "yes" whatever how ridiculous their views are.