Absolutely. You have to make charisma work for you (and not try to be someone else and their manner of expressing charisma), in the sense that your unique perso

Absolutely. You have to make charisma work for you (and not try to be someone else and their manner of expressing charisma), in the sense that your unique personality will lend itself to a type/style of charisma and manner of expressing it (projecting it outward into the world, to the reception of others). You have to figure out how to best take advantage of your personality strengths. Warren Buffett was awkward and shy, incapable of public speaking, when he was younger. He points out that public speaking would make him physically ill. He credits a Dale Carnegie public speaking course [1], for breaking him out of that. Today he can sit in front of a packed arena of 18,000 people and hold the annual Berkshire Hathaway meeting, while giving long speeches with the spotlight focused squarely on him. A lot of charisma is about getting your personality out of the box it's being held in. Figuring out the strategy that best enables you to do that. Typically people don't lack for personality, they lack for being able to outlet it properly, understanding the method of doing that. It's like having a car in your garage and not understanding how to drive it; it's sitting there waiting and it'll take you places, if you learn how to drive it. Charisma is the pairing of your personality with the system/approach of how you get that personality out into the world where it meets other people in a highly effective, impactful manner. You likely have a personality, you need the delivery system. Buffett has a different type of charisma and a different manner of unleashing it, than eg Steve Jobs, Michael Jordan, Tom Cruise or Will Smith. Buffett's style lends itself more to a kind of folksy story telling approach, and it works extremely well for him and matches his personality strengths (for example he liberally uses self-deprecation to disarm his audience of their preconceived notions of elite wealthy types; he learned a very long time ago that people like hearing stories they can relate to and he channels through that mechanism often). [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/billionaire-warren-buffett-says-a-100-dollar-course-had-the-biggest-impact-on-his-success.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/billionaire-warren-buffett-s...