After Years Of Meaning To Read It But Never Seeming To Have The Time, I Finally Started Reading "How

After years of meaning to read it but never seeming to have the time, I finally started reading "How To Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie. I've been told by countless people that this book is the ultimate handbook on how to talk to and deal with people.

I'm not far in, but so far it's been pretty interesting and insightful. This book is almost 100 years old but so far everything I've read seems to still hold up today.

I've had a few people message me asking about more resources on how to improve their social skills. There's always r/etiquette (I don't even have a reddit but I find myself lurking) but, if you're looking to read something to help brush up on your social skills, I can so far recommend "How To Wind Friends and Influence People"

Although, take my recommendation with a grain of salt because I haven't finished it yet. But I tried looking up if there was any criticism for it and had a hard time finding any. It is slightly more focused on social skills for a business setting, but honestly those skills can transfer to just about any social setting. (such as presenting your views and opinions to people in a way that doesn't make people feel attacked, and generally making people feel comfortable and at ease around you)

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1 month ago
Comic with simple digital drawings.
Text: Sometimes I wonder if growing up for people is like this:
Panel 1: Kid pointing at a row of brightly coloured shapes.
Panel 2: The kid smiling with two of the shapes stuck to their body.
Text: But for me it was more like this:
Panel 3: Kid in a dark box with spikes inside.
Panel 4: The kid growing and ending up with indents in them the shape of the spikes.
Panel 5: The box unfolds and opens on the ground. Pim stands up and looks down at their body with spiked indents.
Text: Maybe missing out is a little lonely.
Pim standing in a line-up of people where on either side everyone else has different colourful shapes on them.
Panel 1-2: Pim looking down and noticing something.
Text: But that's okay.
Panel 3: Pim smiling and crouching to pick up a colourful shape on the ground. Other people milling around covered in shapes and picking up new ones. They also have some differently shaped indents.
Text: There's still time.
Watermark: @yeehawpim

I can be shaped by more than the things that hurt me

2 weeks ago

The whole 'men evolved to hunt, women evolved to gather' thing is total nonsense.

Evidence shows women have always hunted. They found a 9000 year old female hunter buried with weapons in Peru, and there’s a ton of other research showing women were just as involved in survival work as men.

The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong
Scientific American
The influential idea that in the past men were hunters and women were not isn’t supported by the available evidence
8 months ago

To anyone barking racism for pointing out brown men are dangerous

To Anyone Barking Racism For Pointing Out Brown Men Are Dangerous
To Anyone Barking Racism For Pointing Out Brown Men Are Dangerous
To Anyone Barking Racism For Pointing Out Brown Men Are Dangerous
To Anyone Barking Racism For Pointing Out Brown Men Are Dangerous
To Anyone Barking Racism For Pointing Out Brown Men Are Dangerous

Just read this humble passage before you bark racism. And yeah, Indian men deserve the image of being rapists because they actually are.

1 month ago

i really like the definition of “adult human female” because it says “thats all it is. its not femininity, makeup, submissiveness, softness, anything. all it is is biology. the rest is up to the individual”

10 months ago

“Cis women who don’t pass” is such an insane thing to say. Do you even hear yourself? “Cis women” don’t need to “pass as women”. We literally ARE women, it’s that simple. The concept of passing doesn’t make the slightest sense when applied to a person who doesn’t identify as trans.

1 month ago
Being Nefarious With Mama

Being nefarious with mama

1 month ago

If your life is horrible and you need a new source of meaning and direction.... Do NOT find religion. Learn to identify plants.

5 months ago

But seriously, if you keep pushing yourself past your mental or physical limits, it will catch up with you. You cannot live forever on three hours of sleep and caffeine and willpower. You cannot keep overpowering your very natural need to relax and recharge. If you don't treat both with care and respect, at some point your brain and your body will reach a point of breakdown and burnout - and any mental or physical conditions you may have tried to ignore and power through will kick your ass. So take that goddamn nap or that break now. Don't wait for yourself to shatter and fall apart before you tend to the cracks in your body and mind. Just because you may have the choice to ignore your limits right now doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Take care of yourself now or you WILL regret it.

1 month ago
Anyone Can Do Retail. Anyone Can Learn Plumbing. There's A Reason It's Primarily Women Being Prostituted.

Anyone can do retail. Anyone can learn plumbing. There's a reason it's primarily women being prostituted.

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