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The Charisma Effect: How to Make a Powerful and Lasting Impression
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The Charisma Effect: How to Make a Powerful and Lasting Impression

by Andrew Leigh
January 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
256 pages
3h 52m
English
Pearson
Content preview from The Charisma Effect: How to Make a Powerful and Lasting Impression

Chapter 4. Presence

 

In the seminal film All That Jazz, the main character starts his day each morning by staring intensely at his image in the mirror before urging, ‘It’s show time!’ He is intensely aware that from the moment he leaves the quiet of his home he is permanently ‘on stage’. While you may not need to remind yourself daily that it’s show time, you do need to evolve your own way of switching on your alertness for those moments where being fully present really matters.

Once there was an extraordinary woman who could not see, hear or speak well enough to be understood by most people. Her remaining senses were surprisingly average. Despite these limitations, she wrote best-selling ...

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