I attract money easily.

In an office of fourteen people, one person asked for a raise last year. She got it. The other thirteen concluded she was favoured.

Some of what looks like magnetism is only the willingness to say a number and then stop talking. It's an unglamorous skill, learned late by most people, and it works partly because so few use it. Money moves towards requests more reliably than it moves towards merit, which is uncomfortable and also useful to know.