How to lose friends and alienate people

264 Pages·1937·16.77 MB·English

by  Irving Dart Tressler

EDITION
1998th
AND
BLIENRTE
PEOPLE
IRVING TRESSLER
1. What are the best ways to bore a bore?
How
2. does one discourage would-be overnight
guests?
3. What are the best ways to penetrate to the sensi-
tivities of people with elephant-like hides?
THE
sole purpose of this book is to help you
solve the biggest problem you face: the prob-
lem of getting rid of people who bore you in
your everyday business and social life.
A short while ago a survey to determine just
what, in addition to sex and movies, the average
American adult wants to know about was conducted
bv the Glass Blowers Protective League and the
Dairymen's Breeders Association. Like all surveys
it cost twice as much and took three times as long
as it should have, but it revealed a very important
fact: the average adult wants to know how to make
himself instantly and permanently unpopular with
people who are dull or annoying.
The Committee conducting the survey (wishing
to prolong its salary appropriation) decided that a
course in unpopularitv was needed.
At last a book on unpopularitv and how to
achieve it has been written. It is the only one of
its kind in existence—the only practical, useful work-
ing handbook in enemy-making. How To Lose
Friends And Alienate People contains all the suc-
cessful methods of dealing with people in whom you
are not interested. It is based upon the author's
lifetime experience in trying to convince friends that
he is non-gregarious, always had been, and always
wanted to be. The book is really an outgrowth of
the author's famous course in Human Relations Up
To A Certain Point And How To Keep Them At
That Point.
Professor R. U. Thehr of Cambridge has said,
"Our friends and acquaintances bother us perpetu-
ally with their invitations and calls, yet we oniy
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THINGS THIS BOOK WILL DO
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FOR YOU
1. Get you out of a mental rut. This isn't the
rutting season, anyhow. What are you doing
init ? —
2. Arouse enthusiasm among your friends
enthusiasm for sudden engagements they
just remembered.
3. Give you 10- 15 more miles per gallon and
relieve you of any flat tires you get stuck
with.
4. Replace tick-tack-toe games at lectures.
5. Get you out of distasteful social engage-
ments quicker than you got into them.
6. Give you those quiet evenings alone you've
yearned for ever since the neighbors "ac-
cepted" you.
7. Decrease your influence, enable you to get
twice as much done as before.
8. Teach you how to antagonize anyone, any-
where, anytime without the aid of dandruff.
9. Increase your happiness by decreasing that
of others.
10. Replace pains in your neck with aches in
your side.
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