The topic about people of influence comes up often in various conversations and in various forums. The subject is one that is written about quite extensively and discussed in all sorts of forums including through radio and television.

A lot of conversation about influencing and indeed the promotion of people who do influence others are there, saturate social media.

Influencers are people whose influential impact is judged by the number of likes and the number of followers they have on their sites.

“I’ll do what she does“, “I’ll eat spinach because he eats spinach and is strong and powerful“, I’ll wear pink hats because she wears a pink hat” and so on.

There is a sad and also a comical side to the power of Influencers. The fact that people are willing to subjugate their beliefs and modify some behaviours because they want to be like the Influencers they hero worship is rather sad.

I try to learn lessons from others. But I will not allow my personality, beliefs and focus to be subjugated by the overriding and unreasonable influence of others.