Six Pervasive Principles Of Influence

My family has influenced the way I see the world by creating an environment that encouraged certain behaviors or actions considered positive and quickly disciplined and corrected any considered negative. With a knowledge of acceptable and improper behaviors, my own moral guideline was created, allowing me to judge the character of others and choose the personalities I wished to surround myself with. The interactions with these people caused me to cultivate particular personality traits, these personality traits then influenced the development of my pervasive principles of influence. It is the development of these pervasive principles of influence that fundamentally define my perception of others, as well as largely direct most future interactions.

The principle of reciprocity was developed at a young age with my mother telling me to never accept anything for free, unless it is insisted and would be rude not to, and in that case extreme gratitude must be shown and the favor repaid in some way. This influences my interactions to this day as I will feel shame for accepting any help and will hold a deep sense of guilt as well as an obligation for the favor to be repaid. My perception of scarcity was heavily influenced to consider the needs of others and to try to accommodate them whenever possible. My sense of authority was greatly influenced on a subconscious level since my father was in the army for the first three years of my life and I was raised by my mother and grandmother during that time. My father and I have never had a close relationship because of this, which has affected my current behavior in such a way that I identify a majority of older males as figures of authority that I need to work harder at