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Make Influence Irresistible: Master Charisma

When Zoe Chance asks people which influence skill they’d like to master, the most common answer is charisma. When she asks what that means, they tell her charisma means people pay attention to you.

So how do we get people to pay attention to us? You could run through the office in your underwear, but that’s not exactly charismatic, is it?

Being charismatic isn’t something you are - it’s something you do. And you can become more charismatic–someone people want to pay attention to–with a few tweaks to your language, body language, and your attention.

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Insights on authentic influence, not “influencer influence”. Still, if influence is a superpower, and since we all might unconsciously be, or find ourselves, at either the giving or the receiving end of influence, it’s good to remember that where there are superpowers, there are of course superheroes, but there are also supervillains.

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