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If we can learn something about being a good communicator, it will be from Dale Carnegie. He was one of the earliest speakers and founders of the self improvement industry that nowadays spans the globe.
So if you haven’t read one of his best books called How To Win Friends And Influence People, I really recommend doing it. In this article I’ll share Dale’s top 10 tips on becomming a great communicator that became golden for me. Ones that I try to follow each day and each time I speak.
Dale Carnegie’s 10 Golden Tips
- Don’t criticize, condemn or complain.
- Give honest and sincere appreciation.
- Become genuinely interested in other people.
- Smile.
- Be a good listener.
- Encourage others to talk about themselves.
- Make the other person feel important.
- If you’re wrong, admit it.
- Show respect to the other person.
- Let others do a great deal of the talking.
The book was first published in 1953, but the advice it contains have proved timeless. Mobile phones, social networks, VoIP communication often make us forget the basics of being a likeable person, such as the ten above. That’s why the few people who still remember them stick out from the crowd. So why not be one of them?
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This book is absolute evergreen and the advices Mr. Carnegie gives us are still valid and extremely useful.
@ Mike
Hi and thanks for the comment. I think this book will be extremely useful even in the next fifty or a hundred years. We often forget the basics of proper communication – something that speaks bad for us.
By the way, it’s amazing how such an old book is written in an easy-to-understand way that resembles web writing.
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