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dcasper, I have not read that. Why do you think it would be good for high schoolers? To turn them all into future businessmen, yes? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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No. It's not a business book at all, more of a 'people skills' book. Also, amazingly easy to read.

15 and 16 year olds are going through difficult times socially. Even if 25% of the ideas in this book make it into their repertoire, they will greatly benefit in the long run. Go read a few chapters at your local bookstore, I'm sure you'd agree.

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Financial success, Carnegie believed, is due 15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to "the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people." He teaches these skills through underlying principles of dealing with people so that they feel important and appreciated. He also emphasizes fundamental techniques for handling people without making them feel manipulated. Carnegie says you can make someone want to do what you want them to by seeing the situation from the other person's point of view and "arousing in the other person an eager want." You learn how to make people like you, win people over to your way of thinking, and change people without causing offense or arousing resentment. For instance, "let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers," and "talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person."

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The only problem I have with this book is that I didn't read it sooner.