Charisma, 2nd Edition

Chapter 4

Confidence

‘

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f you don’t think you’re wonderful, why should anyone else?’

asked the wisecracking actress Mae West. Her legendary self-

assurance did not just happen, she really worked at it.

Anthony Howard, one of Britain’s most distinguished and best-

known political observers, regularly appeared on television. He

had a famously unusual, some would say ugly, face yet his confi-

dence soon made you forget his looks;

as he talked, his personal ...