Carnegie Complete Collection (Latest Version Full Translation)

Author: Li Yiming et al
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Publication Date: 2006-06-01
Features: Have you ever thought about whether dogs are the only animals that don't have to work for a living? Hens need to lay eggs, cows need to produce milk, canaries need to sing. Dogs only need to give you love to make their lives depend on you. When I was five years old, my father bought me a small yellow-haired puppy for fifty cents. I named him Tiber, and he was the source of light and joy in my childhood. Every afternoon around 4:30, he would sit on the front porch, quietly watching the walkway with his beautiful eyes. As soon as he heard my voice or saw me shaking the lunchbox as I walked through the woods, he would dash over like an arrow, panting as he ran up the small hill, jumping and yelping to greet me. Tiber was my best friend for five years. But one tragic night—the night I will never forget—about ten feet away from me, he was electrocuted to death. Tiber's death was a unforgettable tragedy for my childhood. Tiber, you never read psychology, and you don't need to. You can understand this through your intuition. If a person truly cares about others, the number of friends he makes in two months will be more than the number of friends someone who always wants others to care about him makes in two years. Let me repeat: If you care about others, the friends you make in two months will be more than the number of friends someone who needs others to care about him makes in two years. But you and I both know that some people can never wake up, always wanting others to show concern for them. Of course, this method doesn't work. Because they are not interested in others. They only care about themselves—in the morning, at noon, or after dinner. The New York Telephone Company once conducted a detailed study on the content of phone conversations to find out which word is mentioned most often. I think you can guess it—the pronoun "I," "I," "I." In 500 phone conversations, this word was used 3,990 times. When you look at a group photo that includes you, who do you look at first? If we just want to show ourselves off in front of others and make them interested in us, we will never have many sincere and genuine friends. Friends, true friends, are not made this way. Napoleon tried this method, and on his last meeting with Josephine, he said, "Josephine, I am the luckiest person in the history of the world; but at this moment, in this world, you are the only one I can rely on." Historians, however, doubt whether he could really rely on her. The late famous Viennese psychologist Alfred Adler wrote a book called What Life Means. In that book, he said, "People who are not interested in others will face more difficulties in life and cause more harm to others. All human failures come from such people." Maybe you've read dozens of books on psychology, but you can't find a sentence that is more meaningful to me and you than this one.