I wouldn't say this is manipulation. It's influencing. You're simply using your strengths to guide people in a certain direction, which is presumably positive, if you're being to to your nature.
I like this way of looking at it.
I wouldn't say this is manipulation. It's influencing. You're simply using your strengths to guide people in a certain direction, which is presumably positive, if you're being to to your nature.
The more I think on it, the more it seems to me that it is less of manipulation, and more of a deviation from my core persona. I learned that being nice all the time doesn't get you wwhat you want with everyone. Maybe it's just a diffrent side of me, more of an extrovert side, that takes over for the people you can't "kill with kindness", and my natural "good doer" side just sees it as being bad and manipulative?
Sometimes, it's just really hard for me to tell what part of my personality is working when, makes me feel increadably Bi-Polar.