The battleground of influence is rife with emotional landmines. When provoked, your response could fuel your opponents’ agenda. How to counter this? Create an interruption – a brief pause that stalls the emotional surge.
This allows you to analyse, to question, to transcend the immediate impulse.
Emotional control separates influence from vulnerability. It transforms emotional reactions into calculated responses. Influence blooms where emotions are harnessed.
Read: Mastering Emotional Control (one of the Lessons in Extraordinary Influence)