All About Your Focus
If you have it you’re lucky, if you don’t, then you’re not.
Luckily, this is false. But since charisma is widely misunderstood, it’s not clear to a lot of people how to develop it.
Some people say it’s based on body language, some kind of “sexual magnetism,” or maybe some other voodoo.
But the simplest explanation is charisma is the ability to make people feel good when they are around you.
Now, granted, for some people it’s easier than others. If you’re some gorgeous super model, all you’ve got to do is look at people and smile (a REAL smile) and they’ll feel pretty good. They’ll say things like, “Wow, she really lights up a room!”
Unfortunately, most of us aren’t gorgeous super models.
So how do we normal humans create charisma? How do we make people feel good about being around us?
Give them money!
Just kidding.
The easiest is to simply use our language. Instead of talking about ourselves, and how awesome we are (or how awesome we think we are) we get them talking about THEMSELVES and whatever THEY think is awesome about themselves.
Now, if you walk up to some stranger and say, “Wow, You’re AWESOME!” they’ll think you’re some creepy network marketing goof who just escaped from the loony bin.
But when you talk to them like a normal human, but make your intention to carefully and covertly elicit things about them they enjoy, then you’re in pretty good shape.
And when you combine this with a genuine appreciation for whatever it is they are talking about, you will seem VERY charismatic.
One way to significantly fire this up is to use something called “linguistic presuppositions.”
These are pretty cool language structures that assume certain things are true. Salespeople use them to presuppose things about their products or services. Like they’re popular, worth the money, last a long time, better than the competition, etc.
But when YOU use them to presuppose good things about the person you are talking to, you’ll take your charisma to a very rare level of magnetism.
They won’t know exactly what it is about you, but they’ll LOVE being around you.