Dale Carnegie, the greatest spiritual mentor in the 20th century, used a lot of stories about ordinary people's continuous efforts to achieve success, and aroused the fighting spirit of countless lost people through speeches and books, encouraging them to achieve brilliant success. Dale Carnegie is the greatest master of success in the 20th century and the father of modern American adult education. Carnegie's works written on the basis of practice are the best-selling successful inspirational classics in the 20th century. Carnegie's main representative works are: Art of Communication, Weaknesses of Human Nature, Advantages of Human Nature, Beautiful Life, Happy Life, Great Man and Glory of Human Nature. After the publication of these books, they immediately swept the world and were translated into dozens of languages, which were hailed as "miracles in the history of human publishing".
He devoted himself to the study of human nature all his life, explored and analyzed the common psychological characteristics of human beings by using the knowledge of psychology and sociology, and created and displayed a unique adult education model integrating speech, sales promotion, social life and intelligent development. Carnegie was accepted by people from all walks of life, including many military and political dignitaries and even several American presidents. Millions of people in Qian Qian have benefited a lot from Carnegie's education.
The following is a brief introduction to Dale Carnegie's life:
Dale Carnegie was born on1888165438+1October 24th and died on1955165438+1October 60th, at the age of 67. He has been married twice in his life. His first wife was a French countess, 192 1 married him and divorced ten years later. His second wife, Dorothy Carnegie, married him in 1944. She is his disciple and heir to his career, and gave birth to a girl named Dana.
Carnegie is a simple and sincere person. He is warm, friendly and loyal; And has a firm belief, abundant energy and perseverance in pursuing ideals. He was born in a poor peasant family in Missouri, USA. His father is a hardworking farmer and his mother is a devout believer. She was a teacher before her marriage. Carnegie's childhood, like other farm boys in the midwest of the United States, helped the family do housework, drive cows and milk cows; For a time, I picked strawberries and mowed grass for people and earned 5 cents an hour. In that era when there was no agricultural machinery, he and his father were doing heavy farm work together. But every year, the river floods and destroys crops, which often makes their hard work for a year go down the drain, and the whole family lives in poverty.
If Carnegie's childhood was different from that of a Missouri farm boy, it was greatly influenced by his mother. His mother encouraged him to study and hoped that he would become a missionary or teacher in the future. However, the poverty of the family forced young Carnegie to work hard for education. From 65438 to 0904, Carnegie graduated from high school and studied at Rensburg State Teachers College in Missouri. At this time, his family had sold the original farm and moved to Rensburg Normal University in China. Carnegie can't afford to live in this town. I live at home on a farm and go to school by bike every day. I am one of the five or six students in my school who can't afford to live in a town. At home, he milks cows, logs trees, feeds pigs, and studies hard under kerosene lamps, which is a bit like the old saying of China: his head is hung on a beam and his stock is tied. Although he won a full scholarship, he had to take part in various jobs to earn the necessary study expenses. This made him feel ashamed and had an inferiority complex. Therefore, he wants to find a shortcut to get ahead. In school, the people with special influence and fame are baseball players and those who win debates and speeches. Knowing that he has no talent as an athlete, he is determined to win the speech contest. He spent months practicing his speech, but failed again and again. The disappointment and frustration caused by failure even made him think of suicide. However, the next year, he began to win.
His initial goal was to get a degree at school and return to his hometown school to teach after graduation. But in the year of graduation, he found that one of his classmates promoted correspondence courses for international correspondence schools during the summer vacation, and his weekly income was four times higher than his father's hard work. So, after graduating from 1908, he rushed to Denver, where the headquarters of the International Correspondence School is located, and applied for a job as a salesman. Later, he went to South Omaha to sell ham, soap and lard for Amor Company. Although his sales promotion work was very successful, in 19 1 1, he went to new york to study acting. A year later, he felt that he had no talent for acting, so he returned to the sales promotion industry and worked as a salesman in a car company.
But none of these jobs can reach his ideal. He thinks that his dream life in college has not been realized, which is more important than making money. He is determined to write books by day and earn living by teaching at night. He wants to teach public speaking at night school, because he thinks he has been trained and experienced in public speaking in college. These trainings and experiences have swept away his cowardice and inferiority, given him the courage and confidence to communicate with others, and increased his ability to be a man. Therefore, he persuaded the president of the new york YMCA to allow him to open a public speaking class for business people in the evening. From then on, he began the career of adult education that he struggled for all his life.