Learning Fundamentals Of Dealing With People - 1023 Words

Learning The Fundamentals of Dealing With People Throughout life everyone must deal with people, whether in the office, or behind the counter of popular chain coffee shop. Encountering new people has become a day to day routine of the average american. Now whether that encounter is a positive one, or a negative one all depends on one thing, you. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a cheat sheet on making every instance a pleasant one. In â€Å"How To Win Friends Influence People† the reader learns the fundamentals of dealing with people like, never to criticize, show honest appreciation and how to make someone want to do something. Now I don’t know about you, but myself I’ve never known anyone to criticize them-self. For example, in May, of the†¦show more content†¦People are creatures of emotion not of logic, we act on how we feel, not thinking what may happen from actions. Instead of criticizing, humanity should try to show more sympathy and honest ap preciation. â€Å"William James said â€Å" The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.† (Carnegie 18). This desire makes young girls wear make-up and buy the latest styles. It makes the wealthy people donate large sums of money to parks and other buildings to have their name put on it, so that one day their name will be remembered. This desire, and need for appreciation has driven many people to insanity. For some reason they have come to the conclusion that the only way they can receive attention. When a depressed young adult reaches for a razor blade to cut horizontally across their wrists. Hoping to release some of the pain they are feeling, deep down they are hoping to get caught to get attention and sympathy. If they wanted to take their own life they would have cut their wrist vertically, because at the hospital they can not sew the veins back together when they are cut vertically. This desire to feel important and appreciated was even realized by some of America’s most famous producers. â€Å"Florenz Ziegfeld, the most spectacular producer who ever dazzled Broadway, gained his reputation by his subtle to â€Å"glorify the American girl.†Ã¢â‚¬  (Carnegie 25). He made