In the speech presented by Divya McMillin on Monday, she talked about a few things that really stood out to me. The first was informing the audience about something called soft power. Soft power is the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than payments. When I heard that I thought that it was a good point because in some ways it is actually true. What drives a person to do something for somebody is generally because of the attraction they share or one might have for the other. Attraction to me is something that is built over time, or something that happens immediately. I do not think that attraction is something that can be formed out of thin air. It takes work. Which is why once it is formed, it is such a powerful thing. I believe what makes it so strong is that it does not take much for the other person to fall for it. Once the attraction is there, that is all you need to affect someone. In Sally Rao Hill’s scholarly article on The Beautiful, the Cheerful, and the Helpful: The Effects of Service Employee Attributes on Customer Satisfaction, she talked on how employee attributes helped customer satisfaction. Then she added, employees’ displayed emotion interacts with their physical attractiveness and helpfulness, respectively, to influence customer satisfaction.
The second issue that grabbed my attention was the fact that the speaker had mentioned translation. Her definition was something that practices shapes and takes shape within. At first I was a little confused on exactly what that means. Then I sat here and thought about it, translation in this case is taking something and molding it to your desire. In some cases it may even be that you let something translate itself, meaning you allow something to become what it wants to be or what it naturally was meant to be. InAdolfo García scholarly article, Brain activity during translation: A review of the neuroimaging evidence as a testing ground for clinically-based hypotheses, he talks about how no specific regions of the brain have been identified which are exclusive to translation processes. That is what supports my thoughts after hearing McMillin’s speech, and how there is not a specific thing that we can expect out of something. Whatever something becomes is the result of how it molded itself over time, not because we made it.
In conclusion, I learned that attraction is very beneficial in life, and it can get you places with people that may have not been possible if the attraction was not there. In the future I plan to build more attraction with females over time and see where it takes me.
References:
García, A. M. (2013). Brain activity during translation: A review of the neuroimaging evidence as a testing ground for clinically-based hypotheses. Journal Of Neurolinguistics, 26(3), 370-383. doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2012.12.002
Keh, H., Ren, R., Hill, S., & Li, X. (2013). The Beautiful, the Cheerful, and the Helpful: The Effects of Service Employee Attributes on Customer Satisfaction. Psychology & Marketing, 30(3), 211-226. doi:10.1002/mar.20599