The Real Win: What One of the Best-Selling Books of All Time Taught Me About Kindness

Since it was first released in 1936, Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. A 2013 Library of Congress survey ranked it the seventh most influential book in American history. Generations of business leaders, entrepreneurs, teachers, and others have credited the book with shaping the way they communicate.

It is, by almost any measure, a phenomenon.

And for a long time I refused to read it.