Successful personality

Author: Dale Carnegie
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: A U.S. journalist once interviewed banker Morgan: "What determines your success?" Morgan replied without hesitation: "Character." The journalist asked: "Is money or character more important?" Morgan answered directly: "Money is important, but character is more important." Many people might then ask: What is character? What kind of character is conducive to winning success? What excellent qualities do successful people need? The answer is in the book The Successful Character.
Psychologists have found that poor combinations of personality traits are a major reason why many people encounter setbacks and failures in their interactions and dealings. For example: sensitivity, suspicion, stubbornness, low self-esteem, introversion, impatience, self-centeredness, and excessive concern about how others perceive them. In Carnegie's view, the importance of cultivating a sound character surpasses the development of intelligence. Just as a good temper can be gradually cultivated and habits require relentless training. Many successful companies prioritize the malleability of a person's character when hiring employees.
Character is broader in meaning than the concepts of human nature or personality. It encompasses both innate and hereditary factors as well as acquired and social influences. We can list a long series of character strengths, as well as a series of weaknesses. However, the strengths and weaknesses of character are like the two sides of a coin, interdependent and complementary. "The greatest strength often lies at the root of the greatest weakness; the greatest advantage often reveals the greatest disadvantage." The effective approach is: understand your strengths, acknowledge your weaknesses; treat yourself well and improve yourself, and you can move forward steadily.
People with character flaws and those with character strengths will have different outcomes in their careers, studies, and daily interactions, as well as different psychological experiences. Through the ups and downs of life, once you possess the positive, cheerful, strong, and kind character traits of the successful people in this book, you will understand what Carnegie advocates: "Plant a character, harvest a success!" The Successful Character tells us that many people in this world have the potential to achieve great things, and you are one of them.
This book pursues the value goal of a successful life and uses case studies to tell us that in the process of striving for success, good character, qualities, habits, and attitudes are essential conditions for achieving success. "Plant a character, harvest a destiny." This book pursues success as the value goal of life and uses case studies to tell us that in the process of striving for success, good character, qualities, habits, and attitudes are indispensable conditions for winning success.