If you act “as if” you are interested in your job, that bit of acting will tend to make your interest real. It will also tend to decrease your fatigue, your tensions, and your worries. Dale Carnegie once told the story of Harlan A. Howard, who used this piece of advice to completely alter...
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If your temper is aroused and you tell another person a “thing or two,” you’ll have a fine time unloading your feelings, but will your belligerent tones and hostile attitude make it easy for the person to agree with you? Definitely not! As an example, Dale Carnegie cites an example from one of his...
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Dale Carnegie became a master orator largely by studying history’s great speakers. In his book How to Develop Self Confidence & Influence People by Public Speaking he talks about Napoleon, who declared repetition to be the only serious principle of rhetoric. He knew that because an idea was clear to him, was not always...
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Abraham Lincoln—besides being one of the country’s most celebrated presidents—is known as being a great orator. Lincoln had a deep and abiding affection for putting a proposition so that it would be instantly clear to everyone. For example, in his first message to Congress, he used the phrase “sugar-coated.” The public printer and personal...
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During periods of change, we sometimes think too far ahead. If we allow ourselves to get caught up in “what if” thoughts, we lose track of today. Take on the changes one day at a time, and the process seems less overwhelming. Here are five tips for making that happen from your friends at...
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Being an attentive listener is always easy. Our minds drift to our own thoughts, we may be asked to concentrate on someone’s words at the end of a long day, or we just simply might not be interested in the person doing the speaking or the subject matter. But like it or not, good...
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Congratulations! You’ve just completed an interview for a position that interests you, or perhaps you met with a networking contact who offered some insight into your job search. Now that the interview is over, it’s time to swing into action with some proactive follow-up activities. Depending on the nature of your interview, follow up...
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Dale Carnegie once asked Paul Boynton, then employment director for a major oil company, what is the biggest mistake people make in applying for jobs. Carnegie figured Boynton ought to know: he had interviewed more than sixty thousand job seekers; and he had written a book entitled “6 Ways to Get a Job.” Boynton...
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No one likes having a spotlight shone on their mistakes. But there are ways to call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly, without causing them any embarrassment. In his book, “How to Develop Self Confidence & Influence People by Public Speaking,” Dale Carnegie tells the story of Lyman Abbott, who was invited to speak in...
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Dale Carnegie said that when Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right seventy-five percent of the time, he would reach the highest measure of his expectation. And if that was the highest rating that one of the most distinguished men of the twentieth century could hope...
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