In You Are Not the Target, Laura Archera Huxley makes a quiet but profound observation about influence.

Over time, those who hold influence tend to discover three things.

First, we have far more power than we realise to make people better or worse through the way we treat them.

Second, it is far more meaningful — and far more enjoyable — to make people feel good.

And third, when we help others feel good, we often feel better ourselves.

This is not sentimentality. It is responsibility.

Leadership is not only about direction, decisions, or outcomes. It is about the emotional and psychological climate we create around us, often without noticing.
Every interaction leaves a mark.

Every meeting, message, or moment either adds warmth or drains it away.

This note accompanies a short Cultivated Notes film on care, influence, and the often overlooked power we carry — not as targets of the world, but as shapers of it.

Book : You Are Not the Target, Laura Archera Huxley

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