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Anonymous Tue Sep 15 19:41:46 2015 No.7120263 [Reply] [Original]

Should I read this if I have poor social skills?

I'm not totally hopeless, but I'm quite shy, and I usually don't know how to initiate a conversation with someone I don't know very well.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 15 19:44:26 2015 No.7120276 >>7120263 Yes, but don't be religious about it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 15 19:45:35 2015 No.7120281 >>7120276 Pretty much this. Just remember, OP, that the book was originally written for salesmen working in the field. Pick and choose what works for you, but don't go overboard.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 15 19:47:18 2015 No.7120296 >>7120281 We millennials are all just salesmen working in the field. The product IS YOU!!

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 15 19:47:59 2015 No.7120299 File: 1.73 MB, 1600x1160, 1442150417319.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] but the type of people who win friends and influence people don't tend to read books called 'how to win friends and influence people'. it's hopeless tbh fam

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Anonymous Tue Sep 15 19:53:35 2015 No.7120324

>>7120263
It's pretty much a guide on how to be manipulative.

Read it, if only to identify persons attempting to use the techniques within on your person, so you can smack them upside the head for thinking you're some goon who can be suckered with eighty year old widely circulated parlour tricks.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 15 19:55:16 2015 No.7120338 >>7120324 My brother swears by this book so I might actually do this.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 15 20:08:45 2015 No.7120398 >>7120324 >not also making use of the techniques yourself Nice cutting yourself short.

Anonymous Wed Sep 16 07:01:49 2015 No.7122132

>>7120263
It's all fairly obvious stuff and I found myself already doing a lot of the things the books suggests.

For people who can't make friends I'm sure it's a wonderful book though. I would say that it's a book about showing appreciation and letting other people take space.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 16 07:34:49 2015 No.7122207 >>7120263 If things like this don't come together naturally, there's really no point to them. It's like programming a robot to mimic loving you.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 16 08:21:47 2015 No.7122282 >>7120263 Talk about what other people are interested in. Prod them to talk and listen. There, now you don't have to read it.

Anonymous Wed Sep 16 11:32:07 2015 No.7122723

>>7120324
>parlour tricks

>Chapter 1X
>Reviewing your day before you go to sleep, think about how people saw you, what you liked, what you want to work on
>Chapter2X
>Be genuinely enthused by people

No you're right it's all parlour tricks you stupid 19 year old don't be so silly

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 16 12:57:08 2015 No.7123014 >>7120263 I'm reading it... For me it is a oratory book disguised as self-help. Some "say what they want to hear" and so on.

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