Chapter 11 Appendix Carnegie's Life

Dale Carnegie was born on November 24, 1888 and died on November 1, 1955 at the age of 67.He married twice in his life.His first wife, a French countess, married him in 1921 and divorced 10 years later.His second wife was Dorothy Carnegie as we all know him. Carnegie's childhood was the same as that of other Midwestern farm boys, helping the family with chores, driving and milking cows; he also worked for others, earning five cents an hour. If there was any difference between Carnegie's childhood and that of a Missouri farm boy, it was that his mother had a great influence on him.His mother encouraged him to study, hoping that he would be a missionary or a teacher in the future.However, the poverty of his family made the young Carnegie have to work hard for education. In 1904, after graduating from high school, Carnegie attended Wallensburg State Teachers College in Missouri.At this time, his family had sold the original farm and moved to near Wallensburg Teachers College.In schools, there are people of special influence and fame, one kind of baseball player, one kind of people who win debates and speeches.Knowing that he did not have the talent of an athlete, he was determined to win the speech contest.He spent months practicing speeches, failing again and again.Frustration filled him with despair about life.However, he was still unwilling. With his continuous efforts, however, in the second year, he began to win.

After graduation, he successively worked as a salesman and actor, but these were just jobs, not his ideals.He thinks he should live a meaningful life, which is more important than making money.He wants to open public speaking courses, because he believes that such courses can eliminate people's cowardice and low self-esteem, make people have the courage and confidence to deal with others, and increase the wisdom of being a human being and dealing with the world.So he persuaded the president of a YMCA in New York to let him teach an evening public speaking class for business people.From then on, he started his career in adult education, which he has dedicated his life to.

Carnegie's public speaking class adopts heuristic teaching, which is jointly implemented by him and the students, and is specially designed to train people's thinking ability with practical experience.And let the students speak in front of everyone so that they can express themselves more clearly, effectively, and with more poise. Later, Carnegie discovered that these people not only need "language breakthroughs", but also need an art of being a human being to get along with others in daily affairs and social interactions, so he successively opened interpersonal relationship classes, salesperson classes, and management seminars. Classes, customer relationship classes, network development classes, etc., have created and developed a training method that integrates speech skills, sales skills, life skills and practical psychology.

Carnegie very much agrees with the view that only 15% of a person's career success is due to his professional skills, and the other 85% depends on interpersonal relationships and life skills.Therefore, his basic philosophy is to focus on the cultivation of people's self-confidence and the communication, interaction, and tolerance between people, and he has absorbed new achievements in behavioral science and psychology to make people successful in career and happy in family. , People who live happily. Practice shows that Carnegie's education is quick and effective.Many famous people are graduates of Carnegie courses, and many people believe that their success should be attributed to the education of Carnegie courses.Many senators, governors, and many other officials praised the Carnegie courses, saying that the training of these courses made them better speakers and more successful in their careers.Senior business people attribute their success to their ability to speak in front of crowds.Many of the Carnegie-trained students wrote to say that they had found it easier than ever to communicate with others in their public and private lives.

Carnegie's lessons on linguistic breakthrough and harmony are what Rockefeller said: he would pay more for them than anything under the sun. Carnegie's philosophy and the principles and methods of Carnegie's adult education have not only spread to all parts of the United States, but also spread across borders, across oceans, and to the whole world.There are more than 1,700 Carnegie adult education institutions in more than 50 countries on five continents around the world.In Canada and Japan, people believe that Carnegie's adult education is very important to the development of their careers, and many large companies send employees of all levels to receive training.In countries where people living in poverty cannot afford to pay tuition, the Carnegie Institute tries to get companies to pay all or part of the tuition for their students.In order to encourage officials to receive Carnegie training, the Leeds city government in the United Kingdom has set up a funding committee, and the government will subsidize 50% of the tuition for students who can complete the Carnegie training.Among them, there are factory workers, housewives, business managers, school teachers, celebrities, rich people, leaders from all walks of life, and senior government officials from many countries.According to the New York Times, even some leaders in the Soviet Union were trained to improve human relations, and their adult education used many of Carnegie's teaching materials.As a result, the name "Carnegie" became the spokesperson of the positive movement "Change Yourself, Create a Better Life".

Thousands of people around the world have improved their quality of life under the influence of Carnegie's courses in rich and important ways.From their growing self-confidence and enthusiasm, they gain the power of life, improve their ability to communicate with others, and learn the skills of dealing with others, thus gaining greater success and happiness.