22: 17 Ways to Become More Charismatic
The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
Shannon Ables
4.7 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2015
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The good news is anyone can have charisma. It is not something you are born with. Inspired by Olivia Fox Cabane's 2013 book The Charisma Myth, in today's episode, 17 habits are shared with specific examples that will help listeners become charismatic and ultimately help them strengthen relationships and reach greater success in their professional lives as well.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm your host, Shannon Ables. |
| 0:18.8 | And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a |
| 0:25.0 | cafe ole, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Well good Monday morning. I hope your weekend has treated you well and you are looking |
| 0:48.6 | ahead to a week that is going to be full of great potential. I have no doubt. With today's topic |
| 0:54.3 | being charisma and charm I am confident as well that knowing a little bit more |
| 0:58.9 | about how to convey charm and to exude this supposed natural charisma which you will cultivate |
| 1:06.4 | with the habits we're going to talk about today you will increase the |
| 1:09.6 | potential for your week to go even better than it may have already been going or will go. |
| 1:15.0 | I want to start today's episode with a quote from the book that has inspired today's |
| 1:19.6 | episode from the charisma myth by Olivia Fox-Cabane. |
| 1:23.0 | She states, quote, |
| 1:24.0 | a knife can be used both to heal and to hurt. |
| 1:28.0 | Whether in the hands of a surgeon or the hands of a criminal, |
| 1:31.0 | it's the same instrument. Tools are seldom good or bad per se. It's what you |
| 1:36.9 | do with your charisma that matters." End quote. So it definitely is something to think about. |
| 1:42.7 | Chorisma is a tool. |
| 1:44.0 | That's all it is. |
| 1:45.1 | That's all it is. |
| 1:46.6 | In the right hands, it can yield amazing results |
| 1:50.9 | and help so many people. In wrong hands it can be absolutely destructive |
| 1:55.8 | and hurtful. At the heart of someone who possesses real charisma is that the people |
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