"Aura of command"

[asterroc]

I've often heard individuals described as having an "aura of command", "aura of power", or "aura of leadership". Such people are described as having a magnetic personality, of drawing people to them, of entering a room and everyone immediately snaps to attention, of having their every word paid attention to.

I have never met such a person. Do these people, does this quality, really exist? Or is it just a literary hyperbole that people have bought into and pretend exists in real life? Is it just really rare and that's why I haven't encountered it? Is it really common and it's just been the luck of the draw that I haven't met such people? Or am I just insensitive to it?

Comments

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

I think those people do exist and I have met many of them. My manager from Minnesota has a very magic and magnetic way about her. Everyone just swoons when she's around and she has such a nice way of saying "No" that you don't feel small or disagreeable about it at all (she's also one of those people that see letters as colours).

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Maybe those sorts of people don't gravitate to academia. That'd be a good explanation for why I haven't seen them. If so, it's a shame, for there is a hierarchy and such and we could use those sorts of people.

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

I can imagine! Her husband teaches college level economics interestingly enough. I imagine that the hierarchy can get a little crushing :\

[jholomorphic.livejournal.com]

cornel west!