How to Win Friends and Influence People in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dale Carnegie began his career not as a writer, but as a teacher of public speaking. He started out teaching night classes at a YMCA in New York and his classes became wildly popular and highly attended. The success of the classes in New York prompted YMCAs in Philadelphia and Baltimore to begin hosting the course as well. After even greater success, Carnegie decided to begin teaching the courses on his own at hotels in London, Paris, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. Because he could not find any satisfactory handbook already
Influence: Science and Practice information on what others are doing. Examples of this are staged interviews on television advertisements or "infomercials". People are more likely to agree to offers from people whom they like. There are several factors that can influence people to like some people more than others: Any one of the above methods may not help influence people, but used in combination, their effects can be magnified. The Milgram experiment ran by Stanley Milgram provided some of the most stunning insights into how influential authority can be over others. People often act in an automated fashion to commands from authority, even if