If you haven't taken the Which Charisma Type Are You? quiz yet, start there before reading further. The practices in this piece are built around your specific type, and they'll land differently once you know which one you are. The quiz is free and takes about two minutes. Come back when you have your result.
The author of The Charisma Myth, Olivia Fox Cabane, is clear on one point that matters more than any of the four types themselves: charisma is built from three components: presence, power, and warmth, and almost no one starts out with all three in equal measure. Each type in the quiz is really a woman who has mastered one or two of these components so completely that it’s become her signature. The Anchor has presence. The Believer has power. The Safe Harbor has warmth. The Room-Changer has both power and composure.
What follows isn’t a list of things to fix. It’s the specific, small practice that takes your natural charisma and rounds it into something complete, so the thing that already works for you stops being the only thing you have.
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