Research shows that even when we're just an audience member, we can have influence on the person or the people who are at the front of the room. This is one of my favorite findings. It just makes listening to a playlist so much more interesting because the whole time I'm thinking like, oh my God, I know that this person is going to hate this song and it just amplifies the whole experience and makes it so much more pleasant.
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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