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Our friends and family provide a sort of invisible peer pressure that pulls us in their direction.
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We soak up the qualities and practices of those around us.
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Whenever we are unsure how to act, we look to the group to guide our behavior.
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In general, the more local, tangible, concrete, and immediate the consequence, the more likely it is to influence individual behavior.
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Autonomy, it turns out, can be contagious.
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“The more active you become in playing ‘host’ of your own conference within a conference, the better you’ll be at helping other people make connections, making you a center of influence.”
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“The only way to get people to do anything is to recognize their importance and thereby make them feel important.”
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Seeking the influence of powerful people in our lives is not crass or misguided; it can be enormously helpful.
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…if you hang with connected people, you’re connected. If you hang with successful people, you’re more likely to become successful yourself.
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Yes, we live in a sound bite culture, but you must always go deeper. You must get to know people before you can influence them.
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