{"id":2002,"date":"2013-05-17T08:26:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T12:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2013-05-17T08:26:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T12:26:43","slug":"how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people-by-dale-carnegie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2002","title":{"rendered":"how to win friends and influence people by dale carnegie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>tl;dr: {{Dale Carnegie}}&#8217;s {{How to Win Friends and Influence People}} is what {{Robert Greene}} was trying to redo with {{The 48 Laws of Power}} and {{The Art of Seduction}} (both of which I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2012\/12\/06\/the-48-laws-of-power-by-robert-greene\/#.UME3wYNlH00\">previously<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2013\/02\/21\/the-art-of-seduction-by-robert-greene\/#.UZUWO7Vebng\">reviewed<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably the only &#8220;self-help&#8221; book I&#8217;ve ever read that didn&#8217;t either talk down to you, nor treat you as superior for having read it.<\/p>\n<p>The book is constantly interspersed with personal anecdotes and does not present itself as a directive, but as a set of examples (positive and negative) that\u00a0you\u00a0can pick and choose from, but which should be mostly &#8220;picked&#8221; and &#8220;chosen&#8221;, and not so many left behind.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot recommend this book highly enough. I also think that you cannot read (and reread) this too young.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tl;dr: {{Dale Carnegie}}&#8217;s {{How to Win Friends and Influence People}} is what {{Robert Greene}} was trying to redo with {{The 48 Laws of Power}} and {{The Art of Seduction}} (both of which I&#8217;ve previously reviewed). It&#8217;s probably the only &#8220;self-help&#8221; book I&#8217;ve ever read that didn&#8217;t either talk down to you, nor treat you as &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2002\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">how to win friends and influence people by dale carnegie<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,38],"tags":[56,671,746],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-review","tag-48laws","tag-self-help","tag-taos"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}