Hello everyone, welcome back. In the last post, I talked a little bit about how influencing means changing people’s behavior, and I also talked about how I like it.

Yes, I very much do.

It gives me a sense of interest and investment that somehow because of what I said or what I think in some way, people change the way that they behave.

Some people have different terms for this. One of them is “power” – the ability to change things in some way, shape, or form.

But, of course, the words that we use shape the way that we interpret these ideas; calling someone a person who has secured power is different from calling them an influencer.

In the first case, notions of authoritarianism and control come to the fore.

In the latter, the idea of people just being persuaded and swayed like they would be if they were little children listening to the Pied Piper might be as they sway, swagger, and walk along as the flute plays to the musician’s intended destination.

I align a little more with the latter in the sense of making people move closer and closer towards something they had always wanted.

But the longer and longer I live, the more and more I come to realize that what I’m becoming able to do is to use power in certain ways that maybe not everyone can make use of.

It’s a little strange to see or to think about, but that’s just the reality that we’re facing at the moment.

Why things ended up this way and why I became able to wield institutional power in some ways is itself, I think, a funny story which I might want to talk about someday.

But well, it is what it is.

Either way, I know what I want to be in spirit… But things have made it so that in terms of consequence I’ve become able to do certain things that were not possible before.

Looking forward to seeing what’s next!