[mr-ron]

How to win friends and influence people.

Its the book I wish I read in high school and college. I genuinely believe the world would be a better place if everyone were to read that book.

[TeeMassive]

Funny, I am currently listening to this book on Audible. A lot of people think that it's a book about manipulation but it's really not. It's a book about leadership through reciprocity. If you want people invest in your goals you have to contribute to theirs.

Win Your Case by Gerry Spence is also a favorite of mine of the same vein but applied to confrontational situations, but the advice are based on the same foundations.

[arduinomancer]

I don't get why this book is so hyped

Did anyone else read it and think "well duh" to most of it?

Seemed like common sense

[_benj]

As I was reading that book most of it was certainly “common” sense, which was most certainly not common!

My take was kinda “well, being (or even just trying to be) a decent human being is a super power that I needed to be reminded of!”