This is a must-have volume for all teens who want to demystify what popularity really is. “A reader-friendly guide to breaking down the components of popularity and likability and helping readers achieve their goals…. Concise, accessible chapters unpack the phenomenon of popularity and offer exercises and worksheets that lead readers to a greater understanding of their values... Helpful advice and insightful prompts shape a path to self-improvement.”"--Kirkus Reviews This book is NOT about knocking down those who are popular, or an attempt to convince teens that popularity is a bad thing. In fact, research points to the exact opposite: likeability is important!. It is not elusive or granted only to a select few. Anyone can become their own kind of popular with a little bit of insight and a whole lot of reflection. The goal: encourage and promote self-awareness and help readers develop their own individual recipe for the right kind of popular. In four sections, with lively chapters and insightful activities, teens will explore popularity, likeability, status, power, self-esteem, relationships, influencers, and much more. The expert authors reach readers with a voice that rings true, by using science and stories to explain concepts, and connecting teens to real world examples and even celebrities.

Be nice, but not too nice. Be successful, but not too successful. Just be likeable. Whatever that means? Women are stuck in an impossible bind. At work, strong women are criticized for being cold, and warm women are seen as pushovers. An award-winning journalist examines this fundamental paradox and empowers readers to let go of old rules and reimagine leadership rather than reinventing themselves. Consider that even competent women must appear likeable to successfully negotiate a salary, ask for a promotion, or take credit for a job well done—and that studies show these actions usually make them less likeable. And this minefield is doubly loaded when likeability intersects with race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and parental status. Relying on extensive research and interviews, and carefully examined personal experience, The Likeability Trap delivers an essential examination of the pressure put on women to be amiable at work, home, and in the public sphere, and explores the price women pay for internalizing those demands. Rather than advising readers to make themselves likeable, Menendez empowers them to examine how they perceive themselves and others and explores how the concept of likeability is riddled with cultural biases. Our demands for likeability, she argues, hinder everyone’s progress and power. Inspiring, thoughtful and often funny, The Likeability Trap proposes surprising, practical solutions for confronting the cultural patterns holding us back, encourages us to value unique talents and styles instead of muting them, and to remember that while likeability is part of the game, it will not break you.

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! Also available as a Random House AudioBook

From the bestselling author of Love Is the Killer App You can win life’s 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, buy from them, marry them, and 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 raising your likeability factor. The more you are liked, the happier your life will be. In The Likeability Factor, business guru Tim Sanders shows how to build your likeability factor by teaching you how to enhance 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 When you improve these areas and boost your likeability factor, you bring out the best in others, handle life’s challenges with grace, enjoy better health, and excel in your daily roles. You can win the close calls and tight competitions that define and determine success and happiness at work and in life—The Likeability Factor can show you how!

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 There are many reasons why people are so difficult to deal with, and it is not just about them being annoying. Doctors give more time to patients they like, and in a study, the most popular workers were seen as trustworthy, motivated, and serious. #2 Likeability is important, practical, and appealing. It is the deciding factor in every competition you’ll ever enter. People believe what they like. People surround themselves with friends they like. #3 Likeability is an ability to generate positive attitudes in other people through the delivery of emotional and physical benefits. It is difficult to define, but it is a quality that can be delivered through emotional and physical benefits. #4 Likeability is extremely important in the workplace, and can play a large role in whether or not you keep your job. It can also help you reach your potential in your career.

What would our world be like if magic and monsters truly existed? What is the gods once roamed the world and shaped it to their vision? Will you go quietly into that dark night, or will you fight the oncoming storm? What will you do when adventure comes calling? Modern is the foremost in Urban Fantasy gaming. Learn forbidden secrets. Build unique characters. Cast world-shaking spells. Confront the evils of our world. The Modern RPG system is designed to allow you to play in a realistic world where magic and monsters have always existed. It allows you to explore you own world through the lens of magic and mystery. With this book, you can explore any adventure you can imagine. Explore your world through the eyes of the City Elves, the industrious Dwarves or clever Gnomes. Become a Fighter who battles for a cause. Take up the spiritual mantle of the Shaman and strike deals with spirits older than mankind. Become the hero this world needs. Modern RPG includes.. Unique Character Creation that gives you the power. A Familiar Pathfinder system with some unique twists. Skills, Feats and Spells to power your adventures. A sample story to get you started in the Modern World. Everything you need to play!

The Monster Magnus I contain descriptions for over 100 monsters not including sub-types plus templates to modify those. The manual also contains information for Player Races which include the traditional RPG stand-bys as well as several new races! This is the first in a short series of Monster Manuals for the Dice & Glory Roleplaying Game focusing on the basic creatures, Player Races, Animals, Vermin, Undead, Therians etc.