Give Honest & Sincere Appreciation — Carnegie’s second principle depicts spurring those around you into action, the later aspect of the book’s namesake. While pointing out that the crude applications of force or intimidation may solicit begrudged action momentarily, its not conducive of long term cooperation and may carry rather unpleasant repercussions in the future. Carnegie…

For Free — The Renaissance Despite the rapid disappearance of the ‘Renaissance-man’, the autodidact and the polymath, achieving such an elite intellectual status is possible now more than ever. Though never mind the status… imagine unlocking this super power and being; well versed in two or three languages, highly skilled in technical drawing, graceful musically…

‘IF YOU WANT TO GATHER HONEY, DON’T KICK OVER THE BEEHIVE’ — The first principle for affecting those around you is, in a nut shell, don’t be critical of others… Or perhaps if you harbour criticism towards others, continue harbouring rather than expressing. Carnegie’s rationalisation is that despite how reasonable and gently delivered your critique may be, people are more likely to…

Medium Book Club: While This is effectively a summary, it shouldn’t discourage your own reading. Rather, hopefully you do read it and we can talk about it. …

Edition 1: Credit Score non-existant In many ways, moving to the US and attempting to engage in any form of financial mobility, isn’t too dissimilar to bumbiling about figuring out how to play an MMO you’ve just started; Your video game character can’t really do anything you’d like them to, with the path to competence…

Everything is made up, absolutely all of it. The only barrier to entry for almost anything will be the self imposed limitations you’ve assigned. Perhaps you’ve assigned them having felt the urge to do so due to preconsived sociatial notions or your parents or friends or teachers or a general…

What you just read isn’t click-bait, so for the sceptics among, I urge you, read on; perhaps you’ve got a significant portion of your college tuition fees in the form of a sliver of cardboard tucked away in your parents’ garage. That said, Pokémon Cards likely haven’t been at the…