We are naturally drawn to composed people because there’s an old truth that where we speak from we speak to. If you speak from a collapsed place in yourself – you speak to that place in others. If you speak from a place of posturing in you – you will hit that place in others. Neither of those places feel at ease in people and so folks will feel... See more

The charmers are okay with underselling themselves if that means being honest, and by virtue of allowing themselves to lose in the eyes of others, they end up winning over our hearts instead. It’s as if they’ve got nothing to prove, the opposite of method acting.