Here We Glow Again

My friends tease me, saying that I'm such an obnoxious jerk, but amazingly, everybody seems to love me. Somebody said it's because I have charisma -- like a rock star/movie star quality. Honestly, I don't think that highly of myself. I'm interesting-looking, outgoing, funny, and relatively talented in what I do. What is charisma exactly, and can people create it?

--Weirdly Beloved Woman

There are certain people throughout history that you just know had charisma. Moses, for example: "Hey, fell...