Influence is the operating system underneath every interaction. Persuasion is an app that runs on it. Confidence is a byproduct of it. Negotiation is one application of it. But influence itself is the deeper skill: seeing the mechanics of how human decisions are shaped and learning to participate in that process deliberately instead of being subject to it.
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