You're right. I think we don't misunderstand. I think we lack the understanding. I mean, I had to look up the word influence just to make sure we're speaking from the same song sheet. And by definition, it's the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something, or the effect itself. So it really is, Dragon, the power to shape policy,

to ensure a favorable treatment from someone

or especially through status or contacts.

Have you noticed that the world that we live in

has been doing most of the thinking for you,

that your beliefs, perceptions, reactions, fears, and doubts have been shaped

by unsolicited outside noise? How easy it's been for you to slip into that default

sleepwalking mode and label it as life and reality. Yeah, that ends here. Welcome to the

Make Sense with Dr. J.C. podcast.

This is your opportunity to start thinking for yourself, reclaim control, and step back into that role as the shock caller and dominant force of your own reality.

It's when you change the way that you look at things, that the things that you look at begin to change.

So let's wake up, let's rise up,

and let's make sense of why and how shift happens.

Makes sense.

Welcome to the, what I call the Dragonslayer. Welcome to the Make Sense with Dr. J.C.

podcast, Mr. Richard Dolan.

It's nice to have you here.

Good to be back in your presence, bro.

Yeah, I'm so excited about this.

And just to make sure that I lay the stage for how I met this guy, you know,

we were kind of talking back, you know, before we even went live here. And I'm only really

interested in interesting things and people. And what's interesting about you is that my initial

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