The LOLLITA Factor: Lots Of Linkedin Likability Is The Answer

A Meditation On Likability
By
Vincent Wright
7 Nov 2006

It's not quantity.

It's not quality.

It's LIKABILITY!!

We like what we like.

And we remember what we like.

If someone likes you, they are likely to remember you when it's time to share benefits, awards, rewards, etc.

Likewise, if someone doesn't like you, no matter how likely you are to be able to help them, they're not likely to share their prosperity with someone like you.

Your success with a given person, company, community, or culture boils down to whether or not you're likable to them.

Millionaires divorce every day.  So, it's not money that matters.  (Think Donald Trump.)

Beautiful people divorce every day.  So, it's not looks that matter.  (Think Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovetts.  Think Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z.   Think Prince Charles, Princess Diana, and Camilla Parker-Bowles.)

Intelligent people divorce every day.  So, it's not intelligence that matters.   (Stephen Hawkins is pretty smart.  He's divorcing.)

The list of separate items could go on and on and on.  

But the bottom line is this:   If someone likes you, they'll remember you.   So, if you want them to remember you, your job is to get them to like you.   And you'll never know what they like by guessing what they like.  You have to observe, you have to ask, you have to learn.   Period.

Are you likable to the people you like?

Do you know how to be likable - WITH A BACKBONE?   (I.e., character, principles, self-confidence...)

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Thanks!
Vincent Wright
Chief Encouragement Officer
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