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carlton smith
How to Win Friends & Influence People. Essentially, the book can be summed up into five simple steps:
Pay someone a genuine compliment. It has to be sincere. It can’t be a fake compliment.
Ask them a question about their favorite subject, which is typically something about themselves. And then just listen, listen, listen, and listen until they’re
kev • Why Carnegie’s Rules Are Evergreen
Dr. Arthur I. Gates said in his splendid book Educational Psychology: “Sympathy the human species universally craves. The child eagerly displays his injury; or even inflicts a cut or bruise in order to reap abundant sympathy. For the same purpose adults … show their bruises, relate their accidents, illness, especially details of surgical
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Curation leads to expertise. Through curation, you better understand yourself, history, and unlikely connections across fields. Increasingly, we will curate sources and ideas and let AI handle execution or assembly. Honing an ability to curate and arrange these sources will cultivate depth and meaning in your work—tuning the machine to your... See more
terrain.com • Design Literacy
When we are right, let’s try to win people gently and tactfully to our way of thinking, and when we are wrong—and that will be surprisingly often, if we are honest with ourselves—let’s admit our mistakes quickly and with enthusiasm.