The Likeability Factor

How to Boost Your L-Factor and Achieve Your Life's Dreams

By: Tim Sanders

Narrated by: Tim Sanders

Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins

Publisher's summary

Are you wondering how you can improve your relationships with your friends and family? Are you curious how to get or keep the job of your dreams? Do you want to become a more popular person? This book will show you how to do all that by raising your likeability factor—or how much other people like you.

After all, life is a series of popularity contests. The choices other people make about you determine your health, wealth, and happiness. And decades of research prove that people choose who they like. They vote for them, they buy from them, they marry them, and they spend precious time with them.

The good news is that you can arm yourself for the contest and win life’s battles for preference. How? By being likeable. The more you are liked—or the higher your likeability factor—the happier your life will be. This book will show you how to raise that likeability factor by teaching you how to boost four critical elements of your personality:

•Friendliness: your ability to communicate liking and openness to others

•Relevance: your capacity to connect with others’ interests, wants, and needs

•Empathy: your ability to recognize, acknowledge, and experience other people’s feelings •Realness: the integrity that stands behind your likeability and guarantees its authenticity What happens when you improve in these areas and boost your likeability factor?

•You bring out the best in others

•You survive life’s challenges

•You have better health—and even improve others’ health, too •You outperform in your daily roles

•You win the popularity contests that define your life

Join me for a few hours and I’ll share the results of hundreds of thousands of pages of research, numerous seminars, and hundreds of interviews with people just like you! Together let’s build our likeability factor and improve our lives!

The unabridged edition of this title will be available at Audible® on April 26, 2005.

©2005 Tim Sanders (P)2005 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.

Critic reviews

“Conventional wisdom insists that it’s more important to be respected than liked. In this book Tim Sanders challenges that notion and reveals the awesome power of likeability. He shows us that if we want to garner support from our associates, earn the loyalty of our employees, lead our followers to a better future, be healthy, and finally achieve our life’s dreams, we must first be liked. In this important and necessary book, Sanders tells us why our likeability is the foundation of our success, and shows us how we can increase our own.” —Marcus Buckingham, author of First, Break All the Rules and The One Thing You Need to Know. . .

“I think Tim Sanders hits the nail right on the head. If you just make them love you, they’ll be happy to love you. And I learned early in life that if you want people to love you you gotta make sure you love them back.” —George Foreman

“Tim Sanders provides an insightful look at how developing likeability can allow you to influence others and be more successful. The Likeability Factor should be a part of everyone’s success library. It is a fast-paced, readable book. Grab a copy to use on your success journey!” —Peter Handal, CEO, Dale Carnegie & Associates Inc

I like it

Sanders does a great job of presenting his analysis on why we like some people more than others and how being liked positively impacts our lives. He breaks it down into managable portions, and finishes with advice on implementing changes to improve in each area. The book is straight forward, well thought out, and most all points reference credible studies and relevent research. I found the book very enjoyable, helpful, and interesting. Sanders does a great job of reading it, so get the version with his narration.

Works like magic

Tim Sanders has done us a favor by updating the principles of likability based on solid research and detailed "how-to" steps that can raise our L-factors from the normal 4 thru 6 to a 9 or a 10. I have always considered myself a social and likable person, but I found when I applied his subfactors of friendliness, relevance, empathy and realness, it was astonishing how much more positive my interactions with co-workers, friends and acquaintances developed. I chose the abridged version of Sanders himself reading his text, even though he is not a professional reader, because his enthusiasm and sincerity makes up for the occasional misplaced emphasis on a word in a sentence here and there. Very listenable.

I noted there were some sour reviews of the unabridged version. Well there's no accounting for taste. I found if you listen and absorb what Sanders is saying, this is an excellent update to the principles in "How to Win Friends ..." by Dale Carnegie, which is good as far as it goes but leaves out the critical factor: realness. If you are looking to improve your relations with your fellow travelers on this planet, this listen is time well spent.

That’s it?

This book should be 2-3 times as long. There’s more to cover than this and more depth to explore.

yada yada yada

3 hours of listening to blah blah blah was friendly and likable therefore got on top of the world .. so & so wasn't therefore he didn't .. this research says this & that research says that ..
ok then what ???? the remaining of the audio might be of value but after 3 hours of listening to the boring tone & college students research paper and forcing myself to listen I decided to give it up ..
I didn't pay for a research paper .. I was waiting for something like "if you want to be likable this is what you need to do ... " or something like that .. otherwise why would anyone write a book on this subject ..
give me a week or two and I can write a better book ..
such a waste of time and money !!!!!