What can you lean about these pieces of adult life, especially from a book? These are supposed to be parts of life that we should know and understand by the time we reach high school, and yet it is true that certain fundamental truths of interacting person-to-person can be so mysterious. Not just to me, not just to a select minority, but to everyone in some sort of way. We all have our blind spots, and it is perhaps by reading about them and understand what they might be that we will best be able to spot them.
I do not believe that reading a book will make me more likable, I do not think that I will gain a sudden ability to handle other people I have difficulty with. But I do think that by reading this book, I have looked a bit closer at myself and what I do when interacting with others. I have flaws that will always remain with me, and that is an acceptance which brings me a shard of self-peace. But that does not mean that I think I cannot improve, because if I do that then I have nothing left but despair.
Applications
It's hard to give specific examples of how I can make this section of the book apply to my life. I knew the concepts, but I may not have always remembered them. I know the value of a smile, I know what it means to speak and listen... but it is hard to practice it all the time. Ego, pride, hate, sadness, and apathy are something we all feel at times, and these stand opposed to all the principles that allow us to make meaningful relationship connections... but it is a part of the human condition that they must be accepted as a part of life. So if I am to take anything and apply it, it is that I need to remember that what goes around, comes around. If I want to be understood and accepted during my times of failing, I need to do the same to others.
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