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Always an interesting question...

The "walk into a room" presence is for the most part intrinsic but can be learned over time with experience and wisdom.

In my experience there is no archetype, no real outward signal of CP...

When I was a white water rafting guide as a kid, I made the mistake of confusing my passengers outward bravado with courage. More than once in big water the hulksters were in the middle of the raft while the slightly built wife or girlfriends were still on the rail paddling.

Same in the military. My roommate in AOCS was a prior enlisted SEAL (we are still best friends), fairly pudgy, unassuming guy..we didn't learn he was a SEAL until later. As we went forward in the AOCS program it became clear that Mike was a very talented, quiet leader, never raised his voice and always circled back for the lesser guys. I learned a lot from Mike that I carried forward in the military.

So, CP hasn't been a first impression type of judgment on my part for a long time...far too much evidence to the contrary.
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