Dale Carnegie
Transcript: - Early 20th Century, born to two poor Christian farmers. - Raised in Warrensburg, Missouri - Developed speech skills early on attending seminars and assemblies of famous speakers. -Offered spot in Warrensburg State Teacher's College. Couldn't pay board. Dale's Turning Point Dale's Childhood - Dale Carnegie Course is taught worldwide, same principles developed in his class of 1912. - From poor Missouri farm boy, to world-renouned author and teacher. -HTSWASL - “you won’t find anything new in it”, he says that the skills and thoughts within the book are things we as people develop and simply have not effectively applied. Dale Carnegie taught to apply ancient and basic truths to live the life we want to live, with the people we would like in it. Dale Carnegie Dale's Legacy - Miserable after Military discharge, selling trucks and living in NY apt. - Decided he'd "live to write, and write to live." -Got position to teach Communications at YMCA, challenging because practical nature. - Attended Warrensburg State Teacher's School, rode horse. - Outstanding ability to communicate and influence. -Graduated and joined play tour, joined military. Dale as Young Man Dale's Success -To teach course, Dale searched for texts on human relations, found none. Wrote own after 1.5 years research and updated as years passed with his new "human relations laboratory", teaching people to apply concepts they already knew. How to Win Friends and Influence People. - Work sold 15,000,000 copies since 1936, still going! One of first widely successful self-help works. - Made another laboratory and work called How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, designed to eliminate worry using information most people knew.