Lessons & Review: How To Win Friends and Influence People

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3) If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically- we are all human, we will make mistakes and continue to learn from them. By comfortably admitting your mistakes at times, you seem more relatable to other people who can always relate to not always making the best decisions.

4) Begin disagreements in a friendly way, try to find any common ground- this is always the best way to start negotiations or disagreements because once you establish any commonalities between perspectives one can realize that the differences aren’t much in reality.

5) Get the other person saying, “Yes, yes” immediately- when you are trying to convince you want to have them in the practice of saying yes early. If you can tweak your conversations that have the person in agreement early they will be more receptive later on in the conversation.

6) Let the other person do a great deal of the talking- It helps you get an idea of how to deliver your message in order to make it relevant to the other person.

7) Let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers- if you are trying to suggest an idea to someone, try to engage him in a way that leads him to think he came up with the idea himself. Asking others for suggestions for solving common problems is a good way of establishing accountability.

8) Try honestly to see things from the other person’s point of view- being able to convince others means being able to recognize people’s logic and expressing an idea through their same perspective. Try to listen to another’s perspective and keep in mind their environment and any other external factors to help better understand the situation at hand.

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