Brendan KaneHook Point · Your AI Content Coach

Here's how you become a person of influence

9 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this concise YouTube monologue, Brendan Kane explains that true influence stems from emotional impact rather than intellectual persuasion. He cites Maya Angelou’s insight that people remember how they were made to feel, emphasizing that influence is first and foremost emotional. Kane argues that influential individuals focus on actions: they make others feel seen in everyday moments, honor their commitments even when inconvenient, and treat everyone consistently regardless of status. By prioritizing these relational behaviors over overt power or control, they build deep, lasting influence that earns genuine respect and admiration.

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This is how you become a person of influence, like somebody people truly respect and look up to. There's a powerful idea from the writer Maya Angelou who said, "People will forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." And what she meant is that influence is emotional before it's intellectual. So instead of focusing on what someone says, pay attention to what they do. Influential people make other people feel seen even in small, ordinary moments. They do what they say they'll do even when it's inconvenient. They don't change how they treat people based on status or situation. It doesn't look like power, but it creates something far stronger. You see, influence is not about having control over people. It's about building relationships that make them feel seen.