How can one be charismatic? How does one have charisma?

Question

How can one be charismatic? How does one have charisma?

Answer 1

Well charisma sorta comes from somone who just is born 2 be dat way.Or If you're a popular person like if u r in highschool and u have a jock boyfriend then u'll have charisma b cause everyone wants 2 be like u and they think if they act da same n all then they might turn out to have your boy friend no what i mean????

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Answer 2

You have to have no issue with being yourself.

I mean REALLY be who you are with almost reckless abandon.

"Dance like no one is watching" and all that.

Answer 3

do you mean like in the weberian sense? if so there's three types and you're sort of born with it. i don't remember what the three types are but you can google them....

Answer 4

I don't believe there are schools for charisma, so it must be inborn and then cultivated as one grows up.  Bill Clinton grew up sub-middle-class, but sensed at an early age that he drew people to him with his personality, and he became the youngest governor of a state in history.  I also doubt that it can be faked and I think one must be intelligent enough to avoid dumb gaffes.  If charisma is self-taught, one might start by studying the people that you think have it and emulating them.

Answer 5

Very easy......Have a high self esteem. (Not self ego)

Accept yourself for who you are without the need to act like someone who is charismatic.

Confident people = Charismatic people.

Answer 6

Charisma is generally considered to be inborn, but I'm sure that charm school could help you develop it.

There is a recent movie that partly deals with charismatic leadership - "The Last King of Scotland" (2006).  In the movie, a young graduate is taken in by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. Amin was a charismatic individual - the press even liked him even when they knew he had killed many people. Amin was able to stay in power for along period of time through a combination of charisma and fear.

Straight from Wiki (this is actually reliable information in this case): "Charismatic authority is one of three forms of authority laid out in [Max] Weber's tripartite classification of authority, the other two being traditional authority and rational-legal authority. The concept has acquired wide usage among sociologists."