Charisma is when your outside and inside feel whole. https://t.co/ah0zOpaXZk
Charismatic people have the ability to show concern for people’s deepest needs and interests. That doesn’t mean charismatic people are mushy or patronizing, but when you are around them, you sense their interest and care and leave them feeling that you are important.
John C. Maxwell • Be a People Person: Effective Leadership Through Effective Relationships
He gave me a simple definition, one that makes “charisma” easy to grasp: Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are in making them feel good about you. In other words, don’t try to sell other people on you, try to sell them on themselves.
John C. Maxwell • Be a People Person: Effective Leadership Through Effective Relationships
Energy motivates but charisma inspires. Energy is easy to see, easy to measure and easy to copy. Charisma is hard to define, near impossible to measure and too elusive to copy. All great leaders have charisma because all great leaders have clarity of WHY; an undying belief in a purpose or cause bigger than themselves.
Simon Sinek • Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
- the concept of inverse charisma:
E. M. Forster wrote, “To speak to him was to be seduced by an inverse charisma, a sense of being listened to with such intensity that you had to be your most honest, sharpest, and best self.”
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Put simply, charismatic people are helpers. They are out to see others profit; they have the gift of grace.
John C. Maxwell • Be a People Person: Effective Leadership Through Effective Relationships
Charisma is often just the absence of tension/rigidity in conversation
In Greek, charisma translates as a “gift.” Rather than keep that gift to exploit for themselves, some charismatic people disperse it. They hand it out at social events, such as the holiday parties at this time of year, and use it to guide the energy of a shared occasion. I call these people vibe popes. Consider it a nondenominational title for thos... See more