Listening is a tool which can give you influence over others in your life. It can give you the power to get people to be influenced by your opinions and ways, and to get them to do things you want. Influence is all about getting people to think of you when you are not around - that's the simple difference between persuasion and influence: persuasion happens when you're there and influence occurs when you're not there. Once you have someone thinking of you when you are not t