Charisma, 2nd Edition

Chapter 5

Presence

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n the film All That Jazz, the main character starts each day by

staring intensely into a mirror. Drawing himself up and with

a determined, if world-weary air, he announces aloud: ‘It’s

Show time!’ It’s his way of becoming present, of raising his state

of awareness, of switching himself ‘on’.

While you may not need to remind yourself daily that it is show

time, you do need to find your own way of triggering your pres-

ence. It’s ...