“Influence” is a word that is overused in today’s culture. We describe people as “influencers” because they have an amount of followers on social media, which presumes that they have an impact on the opinions or actions of others.

Measuring by that standard, we can be fooled into believing that we are not influential if we don’t have a massive following. Yet, this thinking is flawed, as the quote illustrates. We often have no idea of the true, lasting influence on others that we wield every day.

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