8 Traits of Highly Effective Influencers


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Influencers are Always Hungry

An influencer generally leads from a position of curiosity and passion. It is not a surprise that the leading trait of an influencer is her desire to know more for herself. She intentionally looks to discover the effects of human interaction on an environment, not just on the surface but deep inside. She desires to understand that which makes people behave in certain ways.

An understanding of her world allows her to formulate opinions and provide leadership. Often that leadership dwells on long after the influencer passes from the earth.

In ancient Greece, as the story is told, was a man who was a mathematician and philosopher. In the early days of recorded human history, thinkers were putting together the pieces of science, philosophy and math discovering then what we take for granted today.

This man spent time studying philosophy and math, outcast often among his peers. He was the ancient example of a modern day nerd, perhaps socially awkward, yet passionate about one area of his studies: math.

“They are intentionally looking to discover the effects of human interaction on an environment, not just on the surface but deep inside.”

Later in his life, he would teach math in Alexandria, Egypt, often studying and writing in the Great Library, passing on his passion to his community of scholars, yet ruthlessly pursuing the object of his passion that would lead him to compile a 13 volume work called The Elements. This compilation, as history tells us, became the thesis and proof of geometry and explained the relationships between angles, shapes and even irrational numbers.

Euclid was never known as a leader, per se. However, it is clear that geometry is a cornerstone of our science today. As an influencer, he explained and proved the concepts that would allow the military to make precision strikes against enemies in Afghanistan, civil engineers to design bridges across rivers, scientists to place satellites in a stable orbit around the earth and electrical engineers at Intel to design faster and faster chips and processors for our computers.