# What Is Charisma? Explaining It to an Eight-Year-Old

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119343370405282014
- Source account: [@Ov_Philip](https://x.com/Ov_Philip)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:02
- Published: 2026-11-08
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/efY4QxGNl87K/en/what-is-charisma-explaining-it-to-an-eight-year-old

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/efY4QxGNl87K/en/what-is-charisma-explaining-it-to-an-eight-year-old) Is, is my daughter asked me, she heard one of my YouTube videos, and she said, "What is charisma?"

[0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/efY4QxGNl87K/en/what-is-charisma-explaining-it-to-an-eight-year-old?t=5) She asked me that, and I was like, "Ooh." Like she's eight.

[0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/efY4QxGNl87K/en/what-is-charisma-explaining-it-to-an-eight-year-old?t=8) I said, "Charisma or rizz or aura is someone that you really wanna be around.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/efY4QxGNl87K/en/what-is-charisma-explaining-it-to-an-eight-year-old?t=13) It's when they walk into a room, you wanna go over and talk to them, you wanna sit near them, you wanna listen to them, you wanna work with them, you wanna play with them." And I said, "Do you know anyone like that?"

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/efY4QxGNl87K/en/what-is-charisma-explaining-it-to-an-eight-year-old?t=24) And she goes, "Oh, yes." And she named, so interesting, she named two kids in her class that I had already identified as very charismatic.

[0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/efY4QxGNl87K/en/what-is-charisma-explaining-it-to-an-eight-year-old?t=32) Like I knew-- I, in my mind, I knew who the charismatic kids were in her class.

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/efY4QxGNl87K/en/what-is-charisma-explaining-it-to-an-eight-year-old?t=37) I had, I had popped them, right? I, I saw them.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/efY4QxGNl87K/en/what-is-charisma-explaining-it-to-an-eight-year-old?t=39) They're the kids that you really wanted to be around.

[0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/efY4QxGNl87K/en/what-is-charisma-explaining-it-to-an-eight-year-old?t=41) Um, they, they have this aura about them, and she named those exact two kids.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/efY4QxGNl87K/en/what-is-charisma-explaining-it-to-an-eight-year-old?t=46) So I think that that definition works. It's someone that we are drawn to verbally, physically.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/efY4QxGNl87K/en/what-is-charisma-explaining-it-to-an-eight-year-old?t=51) I think also some of it is can be physical, and there's something hormonal there as well, um, but it's someone we're drawn to.

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/efY4QxGNl87K/en/what-is-charisma-explaining-it-to-an-eight-year-old?t=57) Okay, so based on the twenty years of research you've done- Yes ... if you were trying to teach