Vanessa Williams: We tend to think that we are observing other people more than others are observing us. She says it's really uncomfortable to sustain eye contact with someone on the subway who's just looked at you and you're looking at them. Williams: It's just as likely that you caught them looking at you. But there's no need to get paranoid in this moment, she says.
Influence is often seen as a skill we have to cultivate, a charismatic quality leveraged by select leaders, business people, and successful social media accounts. But in her new book, “You Have More Influence Than You Think,” social psychologist Vanessa Bohns demonstrates that we all have influence through our words, choices, and even just our presence. Maya and Vanessa discuss how we can become more aware of our power to persuade, and learn to wield it wisely.
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