According to The Daily Stat, men who interact with a high powered executive even briefly will feel even more powerful, confident, and wiling to take risks. An interesting statistic. But, this effect doesn’t happen with women who are less keen on becoming powerful.
I have learned through personal experience that everybody I interact with rubs off on me. If I am with someone good at creative thinking, I become better at creative thinking myself. If I am around great technical thinkers, I make better decisions when I am sitting next to them — especially the really complicated decisions. Being around people who constantly complain has a really bad effect on me. I get very irritated. I am not brought down by the specifics of what they are complaining about, but by the fact that the complaining never ends, and that there is no relief.
I feel inspired to even read a book by a higher level person. Reading about Warren Buffet gets me closer to that mindset of a Billionaire. I learn to think about the types of things that he thinks about, and in the way that he does. Sure, it takes a while for it to sink in, and a single exposure is not enough. But, just being around someone smart or powerful can have a huge effect on you.
The interesting fact here is that women are less interested in power and therefor being around powerful people doesn’t rub off on them as much. Does that mean that if I am around a great football player, that they will not rub off on me because I don’t have the internal desire to be good at football? Maybe we can say, that if the spark is not there within you, that external influences will not influence you that much. That is a very spiritual type of a thing to say!