Four critical elements shape your likeability factor: No. 1
Friendliness your ability to communicate liking and openness to
others. Few of us are taught how to tune our personality, how to
resonate with other people with civility. We may understand an
engine needs all parts working to run well but we don’t have
insight into the components of likeability. That we aren’t
likeable when one or more parts are out of sync. Friendliness is
the most fundamental element of likeability. It’s the threshold
of likeability. You need to persuade others you represent
warmth, comfort and safety when their guard asks ‘friend or
foe’? Reciprocation is one of the main reasons people like or
dislike one another. When you are friendly, others want to be
with you and they want you to succeed. If others don’t perceive
you as friendly, then you aren’t friendly. Friendliness is a
communication event. Albert Mehrabian, a communications
researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles,
concludes 55 percent of the like/dislike cu