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Magnetic Personalities

by Rick Baker
On Sep 20, 2011
I have read enough and thought about it enough to believe some people are born with magnetic personalities.
 
Maybe it’s a matter of chemistry.
 
Or, maybe charisma is a good-enough way to describe it?
 
Or, as some suggest, maybe it’s about a natural gift known as self-monitoring…like an empathy that both gives and takes without trying or injuring.
 
Regardless of how we define it - these people are real, unpretentious.
 
These people are magnetic in the literal sense of the word.
 
When these people walk in a room the room’s atmosphere is uplifted.
 
[Years ago, I was fortunate to have a mentor who possessed this natural presence.]
 
I see people who strike me as being gifted in the manner I am describing.
 
The actor John Wayne is a striking example. My son, Frank, just loves John Wayne…and I do too. I knew about John Wayne before he died…I had watched some of his movies when I was very young. My favourite cousin was named ‘John Wayne’…my uncle and aunt and many in their generation named baby boys after the screen hero. I knew all of this. Yet, I did not know about ‘the man’ John Wayne until recently. My son and I have watched many of his movies. We have watched You Tube clips of the great actor, being interviewed, and speaking after he won the Best-Actor Oscar. The more I watched the man, the more I was captured by his natural magnetism….his larger-than-life personality on screen was ‘real’. If there was any doubt about that then it was removed when I listened to other actors, like Harry Carey Jr., talk about their experiences with ‘The Duke’….sheer admiration!
 
John Wayne is one of my heroes.

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Hero Worship | Personalities @ Work

Sales Tweets #307

by Rick Baker
On Sep 20, 2011
Sales Tweet #307 “If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes, stop boring!” George Jessel
 
The Thinking Behind the Sales Tweet
Speaking of boring….did you hear the one about the termite who strolled into a pub, walked up to the counter, and asked “Is the bar tender here?”

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Humour | Thought Tweets

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