![]() I'm Maya Shankar and this is A Slight Change of Plans, a show about who we are and who we become in the face of a big change. On today's episode, what science teaches us about the influence we already have. I think my take is really that we already are influencing people. Here's how to win friends and influence people just in these other thousand different ways. ![]() I am very purposefully not the modern day Dale Carnegie because I think there's so many resources out there that are trying to be that. Dale makes the case that influence is a skill we need to actively cultivate, but Vanessa makes the opposite argument. In 1936, he published the book How to Win Friends and Influence People and it's still a bestseller today. When I hear a title with the word influence in it, I immediately think of Dale Carnegie. That's Vanessa Bohns, a professor of social psychology at Cornell, an author of the book, You Have More Influence Than You Think. ![]() When I think of influence, I think of any time one person changes another person's attitude or behavior. ![]()
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