How to Win Friends and Influence People

[replicant_rasa]

The other day I read the classic How to Win Friends and Influence People, which is really nowhere near as Machiavellian as it sounds. The two main points of the book are to (A) let other people talk and (B) listen (no, really listen) to what they say. Everybody in the world likes to feel that other people are genuinely interested in them, and that

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[sleepontheroad]

LULZ... life in Tokyo is never freaking boring... EVER!

I wish I was back there right now so we could just, you know, hang OUT, like we used to back in the day..

gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan

[replicant_rasa]

Ya, you left before Rehab opened and that is sad! Haven't talked to you in ages, how's Australia working out for you? If you come back, you know there's always space on my floor for you. :D

[autumn_belias]

rofl
I love your stories. I think you have the most entertaining life of all my friends (and yes, that's kinda sad, I do realize that).

And uh. Well. English as a secondary language CAN turn out uh okay. Understandable, at least ^^;
so he was impressed you knew about Perestroika? Either Americans are more stupid than I always thought (no offense, it's just what's commonly known about the school system and after having been asked if we have electricity and fridges here in Europe previously...eh yeah) or we're just force-fed history too much.

Is there any chance btw that you get online regularly again before school starts (which is sometime mid-October)?

[ww0308]

"my natural tendency toward hapless self-absorption" is a really wonderful, universally applicable phrase. Especially for geeks

[moku_youbi]

I'm going to leave a longer message later, but I am in Nagoya now, and I want to visit you soon! And have you visit me. I don't have a phone yet, but I'll be getting one end of this week/beginning of next. I just got internets, but I'll email you in a bit!