# Personal Power **Domain:** Agency / Leadership **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Personal Power** is the capacity to direct attention, action, skill, and relationships toward constructive outcomes without depending on domination or provocation. ## Mechanism and Practice Durable power is generative. It builds, creates, leads, and enlarges the capability of others; shock value spends attention without necessarily producing anything that can endure. ## Relationships - **Related concepts:** [[wiki/Agency|Agency]] · [[wiki/Leadership|Leadership]] · [[wiki/Sovereignty|Sovereignty]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “True power is better than shock value. Getting a rise out of people is easy and quickly exhausted, while learning to build, create, and lead offers a far deeper and more lasting kind of power.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Seeing the Greatness in People Who Feel Like Outsiders - Livestream (Mar 2016)* [[reminders/Leadership/True Power Builds, Creates, and Leads by Bryant McGill|True Power Builds, Creates, and Leads by Bryant McGill]]