Mitch Prinstein | The Power of Likability in a Status Obsessed World

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Your happiness and success are tied to your popularity. And it goes all the way back to high school. In today's episode, Mitch Prinstein helps us to explore the correlation between popularity and happiness by sharing secrets to boosting your likability through things such as understanding what makes people tick; developing empathy for others; making people feel good about themselves; using humor in moderation and many more ways!

Mitch Prinstein, Ph.D. is board certified in clinical child and adolescent psychology and serves as the John Van Seters Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, and the Director of Clinical Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He and his research have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, U.S. News & World Report, Time magazine, New York magazine, Newsweek, Reuters, Family Circle, Real Simple, and elsewhere.

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0:00.0	likeability is so important and it's not status. In fact, the about two-thirds of those who have the highest
0:07.2	levels of status, they're actually very, very disliked. Now if you can have both, that's great you know odds are statistically that status might come at some expense of likeability or at least it's hard to manage both at the same time.
0:21.0	But likeability is powerful just like you're saying. It doesn't matter about your Twitter followers. It doesn't matter about your wealth or your power or your visibility. It matters when you can connect with somebody and help them to feel validated and included to help them know that you're on their side and to make the interaction enjoyable.
0:42.0	Likeability predicts our lifespan.
0:45.7	The more likable we are, the longer we live,
0:48.0	controlling for every other possible factor
0:49.9	that can be thought of, the more likable we are,
0:52.2	the less likely we are to have diseases.
0:55.2	We're more likely, ironically, to, you know, have a partnership that we're happy with for our
1:00.8	children to become more likable.
1:03.2	We're gonna go further in our jobs.
1:05.8	We actually do end up making more money.
1:07.8	Likeability is what we should be caring, teaching,
1:10.9	thinking about, and it's what that 15-year-old in high school that's really an unpopular
1:15.1	nerd should be caring about the most, because that's going to be the factor that's going
1:20.4	to carry them through life in a really, really positive way.
1:24.6	I'm Srenny Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights
1:34.7	of the most innovative and creative minds who
1:36.7	started movements, built thriving businesses,
1:39.4	written best-selling books,
1:40.6	and created insanely interesting art.
1:42.4	For more, check out our 500 episode archive. selling books and created insanely interesting art.
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