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That sweet spot of being both likable and powerful is the definition of high charisma.”
Liz Moody • 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success
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
I admire so much that despite your insane life circumstances, you remain chill and humble and curious, many of the wealthy and powerful people I’ve met are just fucking weird in a way that you’re not even a little bit.
Sasha Chapin • An open letter to 56 people I know
Dave realized that content was a commodity. Anyone could create content, but you can’t create a personality. That is how Barstool's content model was born. The company's model relies on four tenets:
Ari Lewis • How Dave Portnoy Single Handedly Changed the Media Business Forever — Ari Lewis
to the outside world, you realize you’re not just representing you.
Chad Sanders • Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
For years, Yarvin was best known, to the extent that he was known at all, as the court philosopher of the Thiel-verse, the network of heterodox entrepreneurs, intellectuals, and hangers-on surrounding the tech mogul.