卡耐基人性的弱点人性的优点全集(中英对照) 正文 Nine Suggestions on How to Get the Most out of This Book（第2 / 2页）

（4）Underscore each important idea.

（5）Review this book each month.

（6）Apply these principles at every opportunity. Use this volume as a working handbook to help you solve your daily problems.

（7）Make a lively game out of your learning by offering some friend a dime or a dollar every time he or she catches you violating one of these principles.

（8）Check up each week on the progress you are mak-ing. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.

“I often found that this weekly review made me very unhappy. I was frequently astonished at my own blunders. Of course, as the years passed, these blunders became less frequent. Sometimes I was inclined to pat myself on the back a little after one of more for me than any other one thing I have ever attempted.

“It helped me improve my ability to make decisions – and it aided me enormously in all my contacts with people. I cannot recommend it too highly.”

Why don’t you use a similar technique to check up on your application of the principles discussed in this book? If you do, two things will result.

First, you will find yourself engaged in an educational process that is both intriguing and priceless.

Second, you will find that your ability to stop worrying and start living will grow and spread like a green bay tree.

（9）Keep notes in the back of this book showing how and when you have applied these principles.

9. Keep a diary – a diary in which you ought to record your triumphs in the application of these principles. Be specific. Give names, dates, results. Keeping such a record will inspire you to greater efforts; and how fascinating these entries will be when you chance upon them some evening, years from now!

In order to get the most out of this book:

（1）Develop a deep, driving desire to master the principles of human relations.

（2）Read each chapter twice before going on to the next one.

（3）As you read, stop frequently to ask yourself how you can apply each suggestion.