This is my take on chapter 1 of the book, 'how to be people smart' by author Les Giblin. The book focuses on the skills required to work with people. The focus of the first chapter is focused on why people need to master this skill and how people actually learn. Being people smart is about having greater skill in dealing with people.

1. HOW TO BE PEOPLE SMART
Abdul Haye Lucman
CSPD – Presentation
Instructor: Miss Tajwer

2. “KNOW THEN THYSELF, PRESUME NOT
GOD TO SCAN, THE PROPER STUDY OF
MANKIND IS MAN.”
ALEXANDER POPE

4. LAO-TSE
He who understands
others is learned, he
who knows himself is
wise.

5. “know others and know thyself, and
you will not be endangered by
innumerable battles”
Sun Tze
The Art of War

6. “There are three Things extremely
hard, Steel, a Diamond, and to know
one's self”
Benjamin
Franklin
Poor Richard’s Almanac

7. DELPHIC MAXIMS
1.Know thyself
2.Nothing in excess
3.Surety brings ruin
Seven Sages of Greece
Pronaos
Temple of Apollo
at Delphi

8. DELPHIC MAXIMS
143-147
TOMB OF KINEAS
300-250 BC
AI-KHANOUM
As children, learn good
manners
as young men, learn to
control the passions
in middle age, be just
in old age, give good advice
then die, without regret
παῖς ὢν κόσμιος γίνου,
ἡβῶν ἐγκρατής,
μέσος δίκαιος,
πρεσβύτης εὔβουλος,
τελευτῶν ἄλυπος

9. WHY SO FEW OF US ARE PEOPLE
SMART?
• Formal education turns us into cogs
• Subjugation of your will leads you to better understanding of other
people and it’s an ongoing process
• The lack of self-accountability
• Knowledge not used for betterment is better not had
Knowledge + Application
Success

10. WHAT IS ‘PEOPLE SMART’?
Being people smart is having skill with people

11. RECOGNISE PEOPLE SMART PEOPLE?
They are easily recognised as;
1. Leaders
2. Effective managers
3. Gifted salespeople
4. Magnetic Personality
5. Charming
And they are all the same!

12. HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ‘PEOPLE
SMART’?
Be honest with yourself, how many such people do you
know?
Your life depends on it!

13. HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ‘PEOPLE
SMART’?
If you were honest with yourself; not that many
• According to one estimate only 1 in 200 people are actually ‘people
smart’
• People smarts, is a skill that can be learned
• Being people smart does not mean being smart about people but being
smart with people

14. WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF BEING
‘PEOPLE SMART’?
• Income
• Recognition
• Acceptance
• Approval
• Confidence
• Superiority
• Friends
• Prestige
• Promotion
• Security
• Satisfaction
• Worry
• Fear

15. THE PERKS OF BEING ‘PEOPLE SMART’
• You excel in your career
• You have more friends
• You have a nurturing relationship with your family
• You are happier
• You are healthier
• You are less susceptible to mental health issues
• You live longer!

16. WHAT IS EDUCATION?
Education does not mean
teaching people what
they do not know, it
means teaching them to
behave as they do not
behave.
John Ruskin

19. WHY DO WE WANT TO MAKE THE
EFFORT?
People smart people are like Gods among men.
Why does not everyone have manna dew?
Why are ‘people smart’ people uncommon?

20. WHY ARE PEOPLE SMART PEOPLE
UNCOMMON?
• Lack of awareness of the benefits of being ‘people smart’
• The benefits are not always self-evident
• An erroneous feeling that the benefits are intangible
• Fear that too much effort is required

21. HOW DO WE BECOME PEOPLE
SMART?
Develop a better, understanding of human nature
By following some simple rules in life
Thinking outside the body?

22. HOW DO WE BECOME PEOPLE SMART?
The best way to do it;
• Vincent Lombardi a football coach says that the best way to succeed is
to;
excellence comes mostly from a mastery of the fundamentals, the basics
(blocking and tackling). Doing the basics well gives you success.
• Arthur Rubinstein a world famous pianist has this advice to give;
practice the scales an hour each day like I do

23. HOW DO WE LEARN?

24. HOW DO WE LEARN?
83% through sight
11% through hearing
3% through smell/ scent
2% through touch
1% through taste
Neartly 95% of our learning is through the eyes and ears.
The best way to do it, is to learn it by doing.

25. WHAT ARE THE THREE BASIC LEARNING
STYLES?
• Visual learning
• Auditory learning
• Kinesthetic learning
Use what comes best to you. There is no rule of thumb.

26. WHAT IS THE ROADMAP TO ‘PEOPLE
SMART’ SUCCESS?
• Don’t just learn, apply!
• Take baby steps, nothing worthwhile was ever achieved in a day
• Every effort counts towards your success
• If you have difficulty in understanding mentor someone else
• Stop lying to yourself!
• And most importantly of all, Know thyself!

27. RECOMMENDATIONS

28. RECOMMENDED AUTHORS TO READ
• Dale Carnegie
• Stephen R. Covey
• Edward de Bono

29. THANK YOU
Let’s grill the presenter!