Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Old, Bold,Sold

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Dale Careigies How to Win Friends and Influence People was mocked, but it sold 36 million copies in 36 nations. That's 1,912 times more than all my books put together.

The adivice he tendered is echoed now in scholarly psycho-medical tomes about over-coming the blues.

So too with Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking.

You'll find it (filled with greater jargon) in the same sorts of scholarly how-to books.)

Popular is sometimes profound.

Ben




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