The Power of Influence Part 7.

Chris Walker - "The Innerwealth Podcast"

Good morning. Good afternoon, wherever you are, we're talking at this in this podcast series today about the concept of the third universal law of nature and applying it in everyday life. The idea is that nothing's ever missing just changes in form. And you can use that law in an incredibly simple way to influence others. We've talked about the power of silence, we've talked about the power of listening. We've talked about the power of using less words to talk about the confidence of the smile. We talk about actually delivering less information. But giving information to people in the form of triggers, so that they can fill in the gaps. And those triggers, of course, are positive triggers. We've talked about behavior being a more important reflection of a person's intent than their thoughts. And we've talked about argument meaning the person who wins an argument usually loses life. So let's continue. The complementary piece of this puzzle is to remember to keep learning and never become complacent in your position. Anything that isn't growing is decaying. It's a stagnant pool. It's the opposite of the flowing formlessness that we talked about in the third universal law of nature. We're not the first to emphasize the need to continuously remain a student always learning rather than becoming a self satisfied with our identity, not the first, the beginner's mind is one of the infinite possibilities whereas the self satisfied self declared Master has shut up shop and declared that they learned they learned all they need to and this is not only about power, however defined, this is also about being alive, alive to yourself to ideas and to the world around you. The powerless are those imprisoned in in received wisdom, who not only think that they think they do what they're supposed to do the ones who think anything new is bad, and that ambitions are automatically impossible, because they don't fit the cage they're in. We all grow up with such a cage, the cage of culture, social norms, the patterns we learned from our parents, but few of us realize that the door to the cage isn't really locked. Push it and see for yourself. If you know the rules, people will, half the time quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you. If you don't know what's impossible, the impossible is much easier to do. That's enough for this particular podcast. We're going to go on to some more conversation. About the third universal law soon.