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You’ve decided to remain your own person. I thought you would. You didn’t get where you are now by allowing people to manipulate you.
Rites of Passage at $100,000 to $1,000,000+
John Lucht
While this principle of penetrating the macro through the micro is a critical idea in the developmental process, it is also an absolutely pivotal foundation for a great competitor. At the highest levels of any kind of competitive discipline, everyone is great. At this point the decisive factor is rarely who knows more, but who dictates the tone of the battle. For this reason, almost without exception, champions are specialists whose styles emerge from profound awareness of their unique strengths, and who are exceedingly skilled at guiding the battle in that direction.
The Art of Learning
Josh Waitzkin
According to Harvard psychologist Amy Cuddy, a major contributor to this body of research, perceptions of warmth and competence account for roughly 90 percent of the variability in whether you are perceived positively or negatively by others.7 Thus, the importance of learning to project warmth and competence—to come across as a valuable ally—cannot be overstated.