How to Win Friends and Influence People

Talking to a friend of mine at work, we reached the conclusion that human behavior is one of the most amazing subjects envolving relations. She told me she´s reading the book "How to Win Friends and Influence People", written by Dale Carnegie. The core principles of each section in the book are the following:
1. Fundamental Techniques in Handling People
2. Six Ways to Make People Like You
3. Twelve Ways to Win People to Your Way of Thinking
4. Be a Leader: How to Change People Without Giving Offense or Arousing Resentment
I obviously got very interested on it because it shows several ways we can act to reach our goals in a positive way, as a negotiation in which all the envolved wins something. That´s surely a book that should be studied.

I would like to hear about you!!!
What do you think about it?

Is it possible that human behavior is a main point to obtain sucess?

Let´s comment!!!

My Preference

Hey there,

How is everyone doing? Its been  little while since my last post.

Today I will just leave some suggestions based on my preferences. Hope you all enjoy it.

Musical suggestion is the amazing musician John Mayer. His latest album called "Battle Studies" is probably the best album he has done since his master-piece (Continnum). All songs are reflections of failed relationships. My favorite songs in this album are "Perfectly Lonely" and "Edge of Desire". Great music with very elaborated lyrics.

My reading suggestion is Dan Brown's "Deception Point". It is just like any other Dan Brown's novel: an amazing thriller full of curiosities enriched by an outstanding research.

Hope you guys enjoy it, and please comment what you think if you end up checking the suggestions out.

Marco

The importance of practicing English

Hey everyone,

Yesterday I learned a valuable lesson.

I contacted a good friend of mine and we decided to meet after 3 years without seeing each other. We were teammates in Chadron, NE and he is on his Mormon mission here in São Paulo.

It was way weird to hear him speaking Portuguese (perfectly by the way) since I always had in my mind Blake (his name : P) speaking English. We started off speaking Portuguese.

It didn´t take us long to switch to English. That was when I realized how important it is to keep practicing the language. I have been in Brazil for 13 days, and I didn´t feel my English flowing like it used to. I had to think too much to talk, and it made me feel less confident to let it out.

I know I´m not the smartest person alive (maybe the second?! haha), but I´m not the dumbest (hope not... ) either. I just know that even though I spent the last 5 years of my life speaking English daily, I will have to continuously work on it. Every single day.

With that being said, we should all be happy to be part of this blog. If we are not speaking English, at least we are exercising our reading abilities.We can use this tool in our benefit.

Hope you all enjoyed my wise words (jk haha), and I truly wish you all a great day at work!

Intro - New Contributor

Hello everyone, Marco de Souza here!

I am extremely excited to become part of this blog. I love the idea of having a space to practice English and share points of view with different people.
Well, since this is an introduction, I will present myself and share a little bit of my background with everyone.
I was born and raised in São Paulo and started playing basketball at the age of 6. After playing basketball for 15 years I was awarded a scholarship to play ball and study in the United States. I spent the last 5 years living in the U.S. and it was the most rewarding experince of my life.
With "English Day at Work" I would like to share stories, thoughts, and help with some english questions people might have.
 I can't wait to get in touch with  the followers of this great blog.

Talk to you soon,

Marco

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