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Author: Dale Carnegie (USA), Napoleon Hill / Country: Mainland China
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
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A sincere attitude is essential to win friends. Friendship is the encouragement to our spirit, the solace to our soul, and the assistant and counselor in our lives. However, friends do not offer help to you without reason. Only when you become someone they admire and praise can they help you enthusiastically and selflessly, enabling you to overcome difficulties. Some people claim to have countless friends, yet when disaster strikes, they scatter like birds. What could be the reason for this? It is because they fail to move people with sincerity and instead overemphasize formality, giving others a frivolous impression. Those who capture the hearts of friends and earn respect are those who treat others with the strength of their character and sincerity.
"A person who is sincere to others can make more friends in two months than someone who expects others to be sincere to them can in two years," this is a friendship secret shared by Dale Carnegie. Yes, if we are sincere to ourselves but not to others, we will not make friends. This is a simple truth.
The famous Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler said, "People who are insincere toward others face more difficulties in their lives and cause greater harm to others. All human failures stem from such people." Because they lack friends, they cannot offer care and help to others, and others will not care for or help them either.
The renowned American writer Ernest Hemingway had many friends. He did not judge people by their fame. Many people who were not well-known or even ordinary individuals became his close friends. Among his friends were politicians, writers, painters, doctors, teachers, as well as bosses, managers, workers, police officers, boxers, florists, shop assistants, drivers, chefs, and housewives, among others. Why did he have so many friends? The reason was that he was sincere to everyone. To him, the word "friend" was of the utmost importance.
At home, Hemingway was quiet and somewhat serious, but in the presence of friends, he was quite talkative. Whenever friends came, he would stop writing and focus everything on them. No matter what, his living room, his time, and his heart were always open to his friends. When friends visited from afar, Hemingway would always invite them to meet at a restaurant—it was his rule.
Hemingway loved painting and often associated with painters. Although he had participated in two world wars and suffered injuries, leaving him with mobility issues, he would attend every major art exhibition in the U.S. and Europe, often paying for the paintings on the spot, especially those that had not yet been sold or were less popular. He wanted to ensure that no one felt left out and that every painter received the respect they deserved. Many painters lived in modest conditions and often brought their works to Hemingway for selection. Hemingway never let them leave disappointed, always leaving them with one or two happy purchases and paying them promptly. As a result, painters flocked to his home. It was through this that Hemingway earned the respect and trust of many.
If a person is always cold, self-centered, and calculating, it will be very difficult for them to make friends in their lifetime, and no one will be willing to seek their advice. But if they can often put themselves in others' shoes and think about their interests, they will gain others' trust. Treat others with sincerity, and you will surely receive sincere rewards in return. P12-13