I’m pleased to have had a post I wrote published yesterday on one of my favorite blogs, the Tiny Buddha web site. Helping others’ happiness is clearly a nice thing to do, and it will help you to be happier as well. Here’s the first part of the piece, with a link to the rest…
About 20 years ago, I read Dale Carnegie’s classic book, How to Win Friends & Influence People. I loved the book and passed it along to my wife, Marcie. She read a bit of it and returned it to me saying, “This is all common sense. I don’t need to read this.”
Marcie is naturally nice, no doubt one of the things that attracted me to her when we met 30 years ago. And indeed, Carnegie’s strategies, which largely revolve around being nice, were “normal, everyday behavior” for her.
I’ve always prided myself on being a nice person, but I learned a tremendous amount from Carnegie’s 1936 classic…
Click here to read the full article on tinybuddha.com
Best regards, David
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