

There have been times when I certainly have not followed this advice and, naturally, things went wrong between myself and others. I soaked up the advice in the book and, still, today, apply it every chance I get. This was the first book that opened up the human psyche to many people and gave us a key to understand both ourselves and those around us. The book presents Carnegie’s advice on relationships, and it is even more relevant in this age where many of us communicate more by text and social media than we do face to face. But now I find it better to reread it every year. I read it first about ten years ago, and I read it every two years since then. For years, I talked about this book in glowing terms to my friends and siblings and even read from the notes I made regularly.

It remains the only book I’ve read for non-research purposes that I made detailed notes on.
