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Character and expertise build influence

Character and expertise build influence

- [Instructor] This really is why we wrote the book is that after years of thinking about this and helping people with it, I thought there actually is a model. That's not that difficult that makes a big difference. So, first let's talk about character. In the book we talk about how do you define integrity of character? And most people think, "Well, honest and ethical. When you don't do things when people aren't looking that you wouldn't do if they were looking" things like that. But we want to expand the meaning of that word integrity, to think about what does wholeness look like for character? When I go to my doctor, and he starts talking to me about the integrity of my nervous system, he's not talking about whether it's honest or ethical, he's talking about whether it's working properly. Whether all the parts are there and they're properly related to each other. So we posit that as our definition of character and then we…

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