What Is Power?

i ask this question in therot what is power? How do you define it? And is your definition different from machiavelli's? Ye, you know, this turns out to be one of the hardest things to do in the science of power. A you know, bertrand russell, the great philosopher, wrote that power is the basic medium of social life. As i've studied power colleagues for 25 years, are i ten to agree with him? Its its just everywhere. That makes it hard to define.