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3 Books To Help You Understand People
You will struggle to become successful if you don’t understand people. That is a fundamental trust in the life that we live, but lucky for you, we know three books that will help you change that so that you always come out on top.
Callum Carver
May 14, 2024
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
3 BOOKS TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND PEOPLE
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You will struggle to become successful if you don’t understand people.
That is a fundamental trust in the life that we live, but lucky for you, we know three books that will help you change that so that you always come out on top.
How to win friends and influence people.
This is a book that teaches you what is said on the tin; it will teach you how to make friends, increase your popularity, and essentially how to get your way in various different situations by becoming more likeable.
It’s got many different strategies and structures within it that will help you, especially if you find yourself starting from 0.
“The ultimate book for those who need to improve their social skills.”
Surrounded by idiots.
This book breaks up society into four different character types, which are displayed as colours.
It teaches you how to deal with each colour (personality type) in every situation so that no matter what kind of person it is that you meet, you’ll be able to not only understand them but make them like you in order to get on their good side.
Laws of Human Nature.
This is the book that will teach you everything you can possibly know about the nature of humankind. It teaches you how to better understand why people do what they do, how to motivate and influence people, and how to alter your own negative patterns.
“The book that will make you an apprentice in human nature.”
ACTIONABLE NEXT STEPS:
The best way to better understand people is to increase your volume of people. You need to throw yourself into the deep end of meeting new people in order to better understand them.
These books will act as a great foundation, and what you choose to build on top of that is up to you.
TAKEAWAYS:
3 Books to help you understand people:
How to win friends and influence people - Dale Carnegie
Surrounded by idiots - Thomas Erikson
Laws of Human Nature - Robert Greene
LESSON OF THE DAY ⤵️
You just need to be smart enough to not make the same mistake twice and be stubborn enough to not give up until you get it right.
“Hi! I have a lot of things I want to do and sometimes it’s hard to manage everything on the table. Is it worth it to work through the struggle or is it more efficient for me to start removing projects and only focus on a few?”
Would you rather be the jack of all trades and master of none or be at the very top of your game at one thing?
The key to success, according to Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, is Focus. Loosely speaking, you can be anything you want, but you cannot be everything at once.
“duos insequens lepore's neutrum capit” - Desiderius Erasmus
Translated from the Latin: “He that hunts two hares catches neither”
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