The reason why only a few politicians ever get called "great" while the rest are spurned & forgotten

Published: Wed, 08/07/19

One of the ways I make sure I never run out of ideas for emails is, whenever I see something that could contain the germ seed of an idea, theme, subject line, story, topic, etc, I immediately email it to myself, and put it in a special folder on my hard drive.

This folder has nearly 2,500 such notes in it and growing.

And, many of them go back months, and in some cases years and even over a decade.

Here’s one I just plucked out for today, that contains an extremely powerful principle of persuasion and influence you won’t be hearing at the latest “Rah-Rah!” goo-roo seminar.

It’s from almost a year ago.

(Back when I was still on Twitter)

From a guy named Curtis Scoon:

“The great politicians have to think tactically like a crime boss, project the charisma of a champion/hero, and do just enough for the right people to maintain more allies than adversaries. All under the glare of public scrutiny. No easy task which is why few are actually great.”

There’s a lot to think about in that.

And, this “balancing act” is one of the things my Villains books were written to solve.

Whether or not they succeed is up to the reader:

http://www.VillainsBook.com

Ben Settle