Dictionary meanings:
The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.
To affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to persuade or induce.
The capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something, or the effect itself.
The concept:
The fourth mindset I want you to cultivate is "influence mindset" which is all about training your mind to form a habit to become project and come off as an influential individual.
Look, here is the secret. 99% of the people around you unconsciously look for a person in the crowd who knows what he is doing and where he is heading to. People now days don't know anything about themselves and where they are going in life. They need structure, they need a light house that can enlighten their path and tell them "here human! This is where you need to go and this is exactly what you need to do"
And when they see such kind of person who walks with self assurance, they cannot help but instantly start following him.
There are some fundamentals that are responsible to make success in any aspect of life. It is like a default blueprint for some things to work out well and one of that basic foundational key is influence.
If you want to generate results in any area of your life (business, relationships, health, social gathering, etc) then you have to be influential, meaning that you need to have the power to manipulate, create, design, control, modify and implement any thought & resources (people, systems, beliefs, everything) that align the fundamentals together and make the creation possible.
In short, you need to be able to bend the world according to your needs, with dominant force & self assurance, to generate desired output. That's the only way out.
The main reason to develop this mindset is to be able to actualize your dream life/vision.
How to develop influence mindset?
"No men ever achieved anything great without having an influence on outer world"
"An artist's sphere of influence is the world" - Carl Weber