How to Win Friends, Influence People, Crush Competition and Kick Ass At Life!!

One of my favorite books of all time is “How to win friends and influence people” by Dale Carnegie. Today, I am going to break this down for you Steve Wolf style and add my own little Part to the series, we will call it Part 5) “How to crush the competition and kick ass at life!”

You could go out and read the entire book, but I promise you what you are about to read is way more fun then the book that was written in 1936. But when you are done reading the blog, if you still want to buy it, I’ll post an amazon link at the bottom.

Ok, now were we go, my little summary + Some!

Part 1) Fundamental Techniques in Handling People

1. Don’t criticize, complain, or come off being a whiney little B^%$* No one likes that

2. Give honest an honest and sincere appreciation to the person, and even if you think what they are talking about is total bullshit, try to find the best part of it and work with that.

3. Make the other person WANT to get to know you better. (Hint*** This is done by being interesting, if you are not interesting, get to doing some interesting stuff with your life so you have something to talk about. Just don’t be boring because no one want to hang out with boring people.)

 

Part 2) 6 Ways to make people like you

1. Genuinely be interested and give a shit about what people tell you!

2. Smile, and not in a weird creeper way

3. Remember the person’s name. Hint*** Say it to yourself 6 times and then bring it up 3 more times in the immediate conversation and you will never forget it. It works for me 99%  of the time. For example “So Doug, that’s an interesting name, why did your folks name you that, was it after some one famous???”

4. Listen for god sakes!!!!! Let a person just talk about themselves, they will tell you everything that you need to know to get them to do what you want them to.  If you give them long enough, they will tell you their dreams, goals, ambitions etc.

5. When the other person brings up what their interested in, find common ground and ask them questions about that. For Example “Oh you skydive? Me to!! How many jumps do  you have and what got you in to the sport?

6. Make the other person feel important, and do it sincerely. This is the most important, if you master this, you can almost skip steps 1-5

 

Part 3) Win People to your way of thinking

1. Avoid argumentation at all costs. Probably helps if you don’t mention Religion,  or Politics, Sex is ok sometimes given the right circumstances.

2. Respect others opinions and viewpoints even if they are absolutely ridiculous. Do you want to be right, or do you want to win?

3. When wrong, admit it quickly and apologize.

4. Get the other person to keep saying “yes” and them let them keep talking and thinking that the came to the conclusion or idea of the conversation themselves.

5. Put yourself in their shoes, and see the world as they do!

6. Throw down a challenge.

 

Part 4) Be a Leader: How to Change people without offending them or arousing resentment.

1. Begin with Praise and Humility all the time. Remember where you came from!

2. When calling attention to others mistakes, do it indirectly, and talk about your own mistakes that you have made before you go it to their shortcomings.

3. Ask questions instead of giving orders as to get buy-in from the person or people.

4. Always let the person save face and praise them for even the slightest improvement. DO NOT bullshit this either, they will know, do it genuinely or not at all.

5. Give the other person a solid reputation to live up to. Use encouragement and make all faults seem easy to correct.

6. Make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest.

 

Part 5) — My Part — How to Crush the Competition and kick ass at life.

Quick note if I may… What I am about to share with you is from my own personal experience meaning that I have done these things myself and live by them. I would never tell you or suggest anything to you that I have not done time and again mastering the skill!

1. Study your competition / enemy.

2.Live as they do, model them

3. Find weakness’ and take notes

4. Plan the attack carefully and collectively and set aside any emotion, pain, or fear associated with the task at hand.

5. Execute

6. Fight till you die, and if you’re not willing to die for it,(or see it through to the end) it’s not important to you and should go back to playing video games because you’re not ready to play in the big boy’s game and you’ll get hurt or worse.        

Note*** When you get to the point in your life where your own “self competition” in your head is greater than any real competition in the physical world, you are truly unstoppable. If you’re not there yet follow the steps above until you are.

Now on kicking ass at life, here is 10 awesome ways.

1.Never give up

2. Always finish what you start.

3. If you want to be the best, then you have to work harder than whom ever is the best currently. Meaning if the “best” trains 3 hours a day, I need to go 3 hours and 1 minute.

4. Never walk away from a situation feeling like you should have said or done something but were too afraid to speak up. The emotional pain lasts way longer than the physical pain that might ensue in a situation like that.

5. All you have is today. Fuck the past, it’s not who you are, and fuck the future because it hasn’t happened yet. BE HERE NOW, this is the ONLY day you have.

6. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. What almost kills you makes humble, and what kills you, kills you, so don’t get killed.

7. Sometimes in life you have to eat a shit sandwich, so if you do, eat it fast and have a good attitude about it.

8. 99.9% of the time you can be right or you can be happy. So choose wisely, and remember that 0.01% odds are really shitty!

9. Choose your battles very wisely.

10. Eat well everyday, Sleep at least 6 hours per night, have sex 2-4 times per week and tell your friends and your family that you love them and appreciate them at every chance you get

Now go out there and apply some of this information that you have learned. This shit works for me and I want it to work for you, in fact I want you to come up with better stuff so I can log on to your blog one day and read about how something I wrote motivated you to do something different and great, and then you took it a step further, innovated on something I wrote, did, or said and made it better. It’s 2013 ladies and gentlemen and the world is not going to slow down. It will only get faster, and the more you feel left behind, the worse off you are. So get up, dust yourself off, and get back in the fight because we have a revolution to start.

I challenge anyone to apply these principles for the next 7 days. Record a 1-3 minute video of how utilizing these steps helped you, and I will feature you on my blog and  I will give you a $25 -$100!

Here are the submission Requirements:

1. Upload the Video to You and link it to This blog post. (http://aefwolf.wpengine.com/?p=679)

2. Include my name and your name in your video and what steps you utilized in a specific situation to help you

3. Send me an email with the link to your Youtube video. email to [email protected] (Make sure to also send me your Pay pal email SO I CAN PAY YOU!)

4. I will pay you $25-$100 based on the creativity, story, and hits on your youtube. Any video that has over 300 hits before July 10th 2013 will automatically get the $100

5. I will pay out unlimited money for all good content. There will be no limit to submissions. So keep em coming.

I’d tell you good luck, but I don’t believe in luck, so go do it and get PAID SON!

 

If your interested in training on these things and joining forces with me on the application of these steps in your daily life as well please contact me through my blog and lets see what we can do together.

If you want more in-depth information like this, stay tuned for the podcast that will be starting in a couple of weeks or go check out my latest book “The Young Entrepreneurs Guide to Life” which can be found in the “Store” section of my website.

Thanks for taking the time to read this and I am looking forward to hearing your stories!!!!

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

 

 

and if your still interested in reading HTWF&IP Here is the Book Link if your still interested