So why should you try to be more likeable? Well, as I already mentioned, it does a few things for you. It has a huge impact on your relationships, on your career and life in general. So it's really important to be likable. But before we talk about why we should be likeable, what is likability? What is it to be likable?
Take a moment and ask yourself try to answer this question. What is likability? Think of any of your friends, what characteristics Do you think your really likable friends have? How do those characteristics make them likable? Well, everyone wants to be liked, right? It means that people on average tend to form a good first impression of you and can easily like you remember, first impressions are Critical, they really stay with the person who's being impressed upon for quite some time.
It's also quite difficult to change first impressions. So you always want to give a good first impression. And a likeable first impression is even the more better. However, this does not mean that you should ever sacrifice your principles, your independence, your uniqueness, being likable should be genuine. You want to be yourself. You want to be genuine to other people.
You don't want to fake it to make it. You want to be real. Keep that in mind as we go over these six principles of what it means to be likeable. The six principles of likability, why should you be likeable? Yes, it has a big impact on your career relationships in life, but who does it have an impact on? Well, one it has has an impact on your friends.
Being likable helps you make more friends. And hopefully the right kind of friends. Being likable helps you with your family, you're able to work better with your family, overcome obstacles and be considered a better contributor as a family member. It helps with your boss or the company you work for. Being likable means that your employer will have a more favorable opinion of you and offer you more opportunities to grow within that company. It also helps with co workers you want to get along with your co workers.
You want cohesion in a team if you work in a team. So being likable helps you work better with your coworkers. And even better if your co workers are also likeable, so that you have a synergistic effect. And clients. If you have clients, if your customers like you, then they want to do more business with you and you Turn, you get more profit, you are more successful around your coworkers around your employers, round your family and friends. So they all really work together.
Overall likeability helps you be a better person and helps you work with people. Because Don't forget, we are social animals. Humans are social animals. And it's important that we are able to work with people. So likeability is a main contributor to that workability with other people, and all these people and more, all the people who interact with you tend to ask the same conscious or unconscious question, from every angle of human interaction. The basic question is this.
Do I like this person? Your friends, family, employers, co workers and clients will ask this question over and over. Do I like you You and you want that answer to be yes. Being able to get more people to say yes to this question will have a huge impact on your career, your relationships and your life. So how can we get people to answer yes to the question? Do they like you?
And when they answer that question, yes, you'll build better relationships. And in turn that helps open up more opportunities for you. And in addition, you may find yourself happier, as well. So in this section, we've gone over what is likability, and why be likable? Don't forget that it's really important and has a huge impact on your future success, your future relationships and your future life in general. Remember, the number one question people ask when they meet you is do they like you?
And of course you always want to have a yes to that answer, because being likable has a huge impact. On better relationships, more opportunities and the happiness that you'll experience in life. So keep this in mind as we go into the next section of this core lesson. The six principles of likability