Beau Brummell's Etiquette for a Gentleman "Real Men Don't Wear Nikes*"

This book was written for the 47 million men between the ages of 21 to 35 that can not get a career job in America, due to lack of interpersonal skills, that means one does not work well with other people.

An interpersonal skill is the modern term for etiquette. Etiquette was normally taught to men by their mothers and grandmothers, but somehow has slipped in the last two American generations.

Etiquette was brought with the European immigrants, with English the most prominent in the beginning of America, thus the book by the Englishman Beau Brummell, Etiquette for a Gentleman. The four sections provide valuable insight into the proper ways to interact with style and grace; Manners-Interaction with Others, Politeness- Interaction with Women, Dress and Image- Interaction with the Public, and Etiquette- Interaction at the Dining Table.

Employers in America today say that 80% of the applicants, mostly are males, for entry level positions lack interpersonal skills. Interpersonal skills are the life skills that we use every day to communicate and interact with other people, both individually and in groups.

Here a few are examples of the modern term, interpersonal skills; anger management, working with others to find a mutually agreeable outcome, assertive communication, what we say and how we say it, nonverbal communication what we communicate without words, body language (how you dress, your grooming), teamwork means you can collaborate with other people and share ideas with them to come to a common goal, conflict resolution means direct compromises with the person by asking to hear their side of the story relating to the conflict at hand are all interpersonal skills that are invaluable at the workplace and in society today.

Public amusements, indeed, are not so expensive as is sometimes imagined; but they tend to alienate the minds of people from each other. A well-chosen society of friends and acquaintances, more eminent for virtue and good sense than for gaiety and splendor, where the conversation of the day may afford comment for the evening, seems the most rational pleasure that can be afforded.

That your own superiority should always be seen, but never felt, seems an excellent general rule.