Imagine that tomorrow there is a global referendum and you are the subject. Tomorrow morning everyone in the world will cast a vote on whether you are a ‘reliable person’ or an ‘unreliable person’. Which result would you prefer? ‘Reliable’, obviously. You want everyone you interact with – your family, your patients, your bank, your regulators – to consider you reliable….
Do you want more people to like you…or would you prefer to be less liked? Are you someone who finds it easy to make other people like you? Are you actually even remotely likeable? I mean really likeable, not just liked by your mum and three ‘fwends’ you chat with on Facebook. Likeability is a little bit more abstract than the…
When we meet another human being, we make judgements about them. We may not want to, but we do. Your conscious brain works slowly, thinking methodically, and we may foolishly think our conscious brain is the boss. Not so! Your subconscious works a billion times faster, and we make all sorts of instant decisions, inferences and judgements on every situation we…
