Success Formula for Winners: How to Conduct Oneself

Author: Dale Carnegie
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Continuously changing your methods will confuse people, especially your opponents, piquing their curiosity and diverting their attention. If you always act according to your inclinations, over time others will predict your actions and thus thwart you. It is easy to catch a bird flying in a straight line, but it is difficult to catch one that changes its flight path. Also, do not always act according to your second thought. Do everything twice, and others will see through the trick. Malicious people are always trying to take advantage of you. You must be more cautious to stay one step ahead. A skilled player never plays a move that directly benefits the opponent and never allows the opponent to lead the game.