10 Adımda Mutlu Hayat - Dale Carnegie ücretsiz kitap indir

Kovács Péter peterkovacs1 — Imagine yourself at a party. Eventually you bump into a corporate big wig who catches your attention for having been extremely successful in business. You begin chatting with him. The conversation starts out interesting enough. He tells you how he used to work in a little cigar shop owned by his father. How through hard work and determination he set himself apart and landed a job at a nearby hotel working as a bell boy. He tells you as a bell boy he had great people skills, he understood exactly what people wanted from a bell boy and he delivered it to them. That when fussy customers would prove difficult all eyes turned to him to resolve the issue. Eventually he managed to take over the cigar counter at the hotel he worked as a bell boy. He made it profitable. At this point in the conversation/the book around page 100, you start to look around for an escape from the conversation and this single minded worker bore/ you'll be tempted to stop reading this book. You don't see an escape and the one sided conversation continues. You listen how through small steps and his ambition he has come to own first a restaurant, then a chain restaurants and then a string of hotels and on and on.... Then the conversation takes an unexpected twist as he starts to talk about the encounters he has had with women. Some before he was married with women he worked with in the hotel, some during his marriage. All presented in the cadence of a business presentation. He states "I had relations with the brunette upstairs because my wife was too sleepy on our wedding night". "I slept with the foxy blond from the lobby because she wanted it". Amazingly none of this elicits an emotional response from either of anybody other than the course banality of this man's life. A veneer of American dream glamor covering emptiness. That's the book. A boring one sided party conversation with an egotistical high achiever. A portrait of a man having accomplished the capitalist dream of making a ton of money but having lived a life so one sided that you can't help feeling sorry for the guy. All his interests and passions directed to the buildings and business that have made him money. This book won the Pulitzer for what it did very well. Plodding through the bleakness that can accompany money grubbing success, but for me it was not a particularly enjoyable read.