Becoming social is a process, one I don’t think I would’ve done as well with as quickly as I did without the help of those works and Dale Carnigee and the such. However, I’m not recommending these books as a magic bullet to confidence and social ability, but as a great help to giving a person basic understanding of what it means to be social and some steps in how to become a person who can win a crowd. Wait, what does goleman have to do with carnegie? :D One is a practical and amazingly useful book, the other is just sociological theory. I never said that carnegie is not useful, please don’t misquote me :D In fact, I often say that mainstream books on confidence and socializing are VASTLY superior to any pua material. I was specifically talking about the idea that “reading a bunch of material on THEORY” can be useful – i.e. the idea that daniel goleman is a magic bullet. Mainstream books on socializing (the practice) are pretty darn good. And they include: https://bit.ly/43feAKx https://bit.ly/4hUqTCc https://bit.ly/3LolTtm https://bit.ly/49G4Gp7 https://bit.ly/4hHIQUa https://bit.ly/47poM5G https://bit.ly/4oX1g62 https://bit.ly/43LZBb8 https://bit.ly/43PSRJd https://bit.ly/4oV98Vy https://bit.ly/3LyMnIx https://bit.ly/3X1hDCJ https://bit.ly/4or2PJx https://bit.ly/3WH6gzC https://bit.ly/3WEh8yf https://bit.ly/3WGVVDS https://bit.ly/43daPFt https://bit.ly/3LiJnA6 https://bit.ly/4opb0pw https://bit.ly/3LqdINe https://bit.ly/4oX1jPg https://bit.ly/43V1L8i